On Powers of Gaussian White Noise

Abstract

Classical Gaussian white noise in communications and signal processing is viewed as the limit of zero mean second order Gaussian processes with a compactly supported flat spectral density as the support goes to infinity. The difficulty of developing a theory to deal with nonlinear transformations of white noise has been to interpret the corresponding limits. In this paper we show that a renormalization and centering of powers of band-limited Gaussian processes is Gaussian white noise and as a consequence, homogeneous polynomials under suitable renormalization remain white noises.