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Integral Functionals of Probability that Depend Only on Mean Values

Probability 2023-01-04 v1

Abstract

It is shown that affine functions are the only continuous real valued functions on R whose integrals with respect to compactly supported probability measures depend only on the mean value of the measure.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2301.01195,
  title  = {Integral Functionals of Probability that Depend Only on Mean Values},
  author = {Daniel W. Stroock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.01195},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

This little note is my answer to question posed to me by Andrew Lyasoff who asked that I post it. I do not claim that this result is not already known

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