Extreme value theory for multivariate stationary sequences

A distributional mixing condition is introduced for stationary sequences of random vectors to study their extremes. For a sequence satisfying the condition, the following topics which concern the weak limit F of properly normalized partial maxima are studied: (1) To obtain characterizations of F. (2) To study a condition under which the partial maxima behave as they would if the sequence were i.i.d. (3) To consider problems in connection with the independence of the margins of F.