Stable measures and central limit theorems in spaces of stable type

Marcus, Michael B.; Woyczyński, Wojbor A.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1979-0531970-2

Stable measures and central limit theorems in spaces of stable type

Authors: Michael B. Marcus and Wojbor A. Woyczyński
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 251 (1979), 71-102
MSC: Primary 60B12; Secondary 60E07
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1979-0531970-2
MathSciNet review: 531970
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Abstract: Let X be a symmetric random variable with values in a quasinormed linear space E. X satisfies the central limit theorem on E with index p, $0 \, < \, p \, \leqslant \, 2$ , if $\mathcal{L}{n^{ - 1/p}}({X_1} + \cdots + {{\text{X}}_n}))$ converges weakly to some probability measure on E. Hoffman-Jorgensen and Pisier have shown that Banach spaces of stable type 2 provide a natural environment for the central limit theorem with index . In this paper we show that, for , quasi-normed linear spaces of stable type p provide a natural environment for the central limit theorem with index p. A similar result holds also for the weak law of large numbers with index p.

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