Infinite divisibility (Q1103942): Difference between revisions

The classical statement that ``limit laws are infinitely divisible'' can be formulated in terms of convolution semigroups of probability measures and then leads naturally to a problem for (commutative) topological semigroups S: if \(x\in S\) arises as the limit of an infinitesimal triangular array of elements of S can we then find, for every \(n\in {\mathbb{N}}\), an element \(y_ n\) of S such that \(x_ n=y_ n^ n?\) The main result of the paper gives conditions on S for this to hold.