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Laplace transforms which are negative powers of quadratic polynomials

Author(s): G. Letac; J. Wesołowski
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 360 (2008), 6475-6496.
MSC (2000): Primary 60E05, 44A10, 62E10
Posted: June 3, 2008
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Abstract: We find the distributions in $ \mathbb{R}^n$ for the independent random variables $ X$ and $ Y$ such that $ \mathbb{E}(X\vert X+Y)=a(X+Y)$ and $ \mathbb{E}(q(X)\vert X+Y)=bq(X+Y)$ where $ q$ runs through the set of all quadratic forms on $ \mathbb{R}^n$ orthogonal to a given quadratic form $ v.$ The essential part of this class is provided by distributions with Laplace transforms $ (1-2\langle c,s\rangle+v(s))^{-p}$ that we describe completely, obtaining a generalization of a Gindikin theorem. This leads to the classification of natural exponential families with the variance function of type $ \frac{1}{p}m\otimes m-\varphi(m)M_v$, where $ M_v$ is the symmetric matrix associated to the quadratic form $ v$ and $ m\mapsto \varphi(m)$ is a real function. These natural exponential families extend the classical Wishart distributions on Lorentz cones already considered by Jensen, and later on by Faraut and Korányi.


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Additional Information:

G. Letac
Affiliation: Laboratoire de Statistique et Probabilités, Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse, France
Email: letac@cict.fr

J. Wesołowski
Affiliation: Wydzia{ł} Matematyki i Nauk Informacyjnych, Politechnika Warszawska, Warszawa, Poland
Email: wesolo@mini.pw.edu.pl

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-08-04463-2
PII: S 0002-9947(08)04463-2
Keywords: Characterizations of probabilities, Gindikin Theorem, Lorentz cone, Wishart distributions, natural exponential families, variance functions.
Received by editor(s): May 8, 2006
Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 1, 2006
Posted: June 3, 2008
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society


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