Infinitely divisible laws associated with hyperbolic functions

Canadian Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 292-330

  Pitman, Jim ^a   Yor, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Paris VII LPSM partially supported by ERC Starting Grant 680275 MALIG   (France)

Author keywords

Bessel process; Brownian motion; Characterization of distributions; Gamma process; L vy process; Meixner process; Mellin transform; Riemann zeta function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037959953     PISSN: 0008414X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4153/CJM-2003-014-x     Document Type: Article

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