The intensity function of a point process is positive and continuous inside the interval, so its measure is finite on every compact subinterval. Consequently the Poisson point process is locally finite there. Its nonatomic intensity makes it simple and gives no point at almost surely. At the endpoints,
Both half-intervals therefore have infinite intensity. More explicitly, exhaust either half by increasing compact intervals with means . For any fixed integer ,
Taking the countable union over proves infinitely many points on each side almost surely.
Local finiteness excludes accumulation in the interior, including at . Hence there is a largest negative point and a smallest positive point. For example, given any negative point, the compact interval between it and contains finitely many points and therefore a largest one. Call it ; call the smallest positive point , and enumerate consecutively in both directions. Infinite counts give every integer index, and the lack of interior accumulation implies as and as . Thus the specified two-sided labeling exists almost surely.
Use the cumulative-intensity transformation
It has , positive derivative, and limits at the two endpoints, so it is an increasing bijection onto . One explicit expression is
For any bounded interval in the target, its preimage has intensity
Disjoint target sets have disjoint preimages, so their counts are independent. This proves directly, or by the Poisson mapping theorem, that the transformed points form a unit-rate Poisson process on the real line.
Put . On the positive half-line, the successive spacings are independent exponential random variables of mean , so . The strong law of large numbers gives almost surely. On the negative half-line, independently, the reflected points satisfy , because is the first point to the left of zero. Thus , or also as . The shift by one has no effect on these limits.
From the explicit formula, or by integrating the endpoint intensity asymptotics,
Substitute and use the strong law for Poisson arrival times. At the right endpoint,
so
At the left endpoint the corresponding result is
Equivalently . The different powers of reflect the different endpoint singularity orders, an instance of power-law boundary accumulation of a Poisson point process.