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On some analytical properties of stable densities

Probability 2016-04-27 v1

Abstract

L.Bondesson [1] conjectured that the density of a positive α\alpha-stable distribution is hyperbolically completely monotone (HCM in short) if and only if α\alpha \le 1/2. This was proved recently by P. Bosch and Th. Simon, who also conjectured a strengthened version of this result. We disprove this conjecture as well as a correlated conjecture of Bondesson, while giving a short new proof of the initial conjecture, as a direct consequence of a new algebraic property of HCM and Generalized Gamma convolution densities (GGC in short) which we establish.

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@article{arxiv.1604.07705,
  title  = {On some analytical properties of stable densities},
  author = {Sonia Fourati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.07705},
  year   = {2016}
}