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Tail Probability and Singularity of Laplace-Stieltjes Transform of a Heavy Tailed Random Variable

Probability 2009-09-02 v2 Complex Variables

Abstract

In this paper, we will give a sufficient condition for a non-negative random variable XX to be heavy tailed by investigating the Laplace-Stieltjes transform of the probability distribution function. We focus on the relation between the singularity at the real point of the axis of convergence and the asymptotic decay of the tail probability. Our theorem is a kind of Tauberian theorems.

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@article{arxiv.0909.0090,
  title  = {Tail Probability and Singularity of Laplace-Stieltjes Transform of a Heavy Tailed Random Variable},
  author = {Kenji Nakagawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.0090},
  year   = {2009}
}

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22 pages, no figure