On the unimodality of high convolutions of discrete distributions

DOI10.1214/AOP/1176993082MaRDI QIDQ2266513zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Odlyzko, L. Bruce Richmond

Publication date 1985

Published in The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176993082

zbMATH Keywords

distributions concentrated on the integersstrongly unimodalunimodal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

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