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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 for the independent random variables and such that and where runs through the set of all quadratic forms on orthogonal to a given quadratic form The essential part of this class is provided by distributions with Laplace transforms 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 , where is the symmetric matrix associated to the quadratic form and 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
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2008,
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