%0 Journal Article %@ 0304-4149 %A Dahlhaus, Rainer %C Amsterdam %D 1996 %F heidok:20931 %I Elsevier %J Stochastic processes and their applications %K Locally stationary processes; Evolutionary spectra; Kullback-Leibler divergence; time varying autoregressions %N 1 %P 139-168 %R 10.11588/heidok.00020931 %T On the Kullback-Leibler Information Divergence of LocallyStationary Processes %U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/20931/ %V 62 %X A class of processes with a time varying spectral representationis introduced. A time varying spectral density is defined and a uniquenessproperty of this spectral density is established. As an example we study timevarying autoregressions. Several results on the asymptotic norm - andtrace behaviour of covariance matrices of such processes are derived. Asa consequence we prove a Kolmogorov formula for the local prediction error and calculate the asymptotic Kullback Leibler information divergence.