Here is an explicit example even within simple point processes. Let be a positive integer with probability mass function . The telescoping series sums to one, is finite almost surely, but . Conditional on , sample independent points with the uniform distribution on . The resulting point process has finitely many distinct points almost surely, while . Thus finite counts in each realization and finite mean counts are separate requirements; local finiteness of the intensity measure is an integrability assumption.
Randomly shifted lattice point process 2026-10-14
Let have the uniform distribution on and place a point at every , . This is a simple point process, locally finite, and a stationary point process: a translation only changes the phase modulo one, preserving its uniform distribution. For every Borel set , the Tonelli theorem givesIts consecutive points are exactly one unit apart, despite having the same intensity measure as a unit-rate Poisson point process. This is the one-dimensional translated-grid construction.[ref]
Spatial Point Processes and their Applications. Section 2.1, Example 2.3, printed pp. 26-27: randomly translated grids have constant intensity
Every half-open interval of length one contains exactly one point. For and , , each count has the Bernoulli distribution with parameter , andMore generally, an interval of length , with a nonnegative integer and , contains or points with probabilities and . Its count variance is , while a unit-rate Poisson point process has count variance .