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The closure of a local subexponential distribution class under convolution roots, with applications to the compound Poisson process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Yuebao Wang*
Affiliation:
Soochow University
Dongya Cheng*
Affiliation:
Soochow University
Kaiyong Wang*
Affiliation:
Soochow University
*
Postal address: Department of Mathematics, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, P. R. China.
Postal address: Department of Mathematics, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, P. R. China.
Postal address: Department of Mathematics, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, P. R. China.
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Abstract

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Let denote the class of local subexponential distributions and Fν the ν-fold convolution of distribution F, where ν belongs to one of the following three cases: ν is a random variable taking only a finite number of values, in particular νn for some n ≥ 2; ν is a Poisson random variable; or ν is a geometric random variable. Along the lines of Embrechts, Goldie, and Veraverbeke (1979), the following assertion is proved under certain conditions: This result is applied to the infinitely divisible laws and some new results are established. The results obtained extend the corresponding findings of Asmussen, Foss, and Korshunov (2003).

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
© Applied Probability Trust 2005 

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