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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under NSF Grant GP-13258.
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Horn, R.A. On necessary and sufficient conditions for an infinitely divisible distribution to be normal or degenerate. Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw Gebiete 21, 179–187 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00538390
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