“…Furthermore, Blaszczyszyn et al [2] derived asymptotic normality of geometric statistics (not necessarily U-statistics) when the input process exhibits fast decay of correlations. In the context of random topology, proving the asymptotic normality of the simplex counts, which themselves are U-statistics, will be a crucial step in deriving the central limit theorem for topological invariants, such as the Euler characteristic and Betti numbers [17,21,29,35]. If r n decays more slowly, such that n k r d(k−1) n → c, n → ∞, for some c ∈ (0, ∞), the k-tuples that satisfy the geometric conditions in H n will occur less frequently.…”