Limit Theorems for Unions of Random Closed Sets

The book concerns limit theorems and laws of large numbersfor scaled unionsof independent identically distributedrandom sets. These results generalizewell-known facts fromthe theory of extreme values. Limiting distributions (calledunion-stable) are characterized and found explicitly formany examples of random closed sets. The speed ofconvergence in the limit theorems for unions is estimated bymeans of the probability metrics method.It includes theevaluation of distances between distributions of