Independence properties of the Matsumoto-Yor type

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Abstract: We define Letac-Wesolowski-Matsumoto-Yor (LWMY) functions as decreasing functions from (0,infty) onto (0,infty) with the following property: there exist independent, positive random variables X and Y such that the variables f(X+Y) and f(X)f(X+Y) are independent. We prove that, under additional assumptions, there are essentially four such functions. The first one is f(x)=1/x. In this case, referred to in the literature as the Matsumoto-Yor property, the law of X is generalized inverse Gaussian while Y is gamma distributed. In the three other cases, the associated densities are provided. As a consequence, we obtain a new relation of convolution involving gamma distributions and Kummer distributions of type 2.











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