On powers of Stieltjes moment sequences, I (Q2576804)

The starting point of this work is a theorem proved earlier by the author and \textit{A. J. Duran} [Ark. Mat. 42, 239--257 (2004; Zbl 1057.44002)]. It is proved that the border \(c=2\) in this theorem is best possible by proving that the sequence \((n!)c\) becomes indeterminate as a Stieltjes moment sequence when \(c>2\). The proof is given in section 2. In section 3 the author deals with a similar result about the product of independent identically distributed normal random variables. It is also proved that the distribution of the product of \(p\) independent identically distributed normal random variables is indeterminate if and only if \(p\) is greater than or equal to 3.