Convolution of unimodal distributions can produce any number of modes

DOI10.1214/AOP/1176989129MaRDI QIDQ688060zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ken-Iti Sato

Publication date 1 June 1994

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176989129

zbMATH Keywords

\(n\)-modalityunimodal distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

Review text

Let \(n\) be an integer \(\geq 2\). A unimodal distribution \(\mu\) is constructed for which the convolution \(\mu * \mu\) is \(n\)-modal. The unimodal distribution \(\mu_ 1\) for which \(\mu_ 1 * \mu_ 1\) is \(\infty\)-modal is presented as well.

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