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In carrying out this work the first mentioned author was supported by Contract Nonr-220(31) between the Office of Naval Research and the California Institute of Technology; the second author (part time) by a National Science Foundation grant to Dartmouth College.
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Garsia, A., Lamperti, J. A discrete renewal theorem with infinite mean. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 37, 221–234 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02566974
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