“…de ' hertz@ nbi.dk Istefan. rotter@ biologie.uni-freiburg.de results describing Hawkes process stability [22], long-term behavior [7,23], and large deviation properties [24], Yet, since the early works of Hawkes himself on the covariance density and Bartlett spectrum [25] of self-exciting processes [1,26], few have tried to further elucidate their statistical properties. In his work, Adamopoulos [27], for example, attempts to derive the probability generating functional of the Hawkes process, but manages only to represent it implicitly, as a solution of an intractable functional equation.…”