Probability in Banach Spaces: Stable and Infinitely Divisible Distributions

This book is devoted to the study of stable measures on Banach spaces. The first part presents the classical approach via infinitely divisible measures (the Levy-Khinchin representation) and establishes some general properties of stable measures, such as Levy's spectral representation and the tail behaviour of stable measures. The second part is devoted to a comparatively new functional analytic approach, and an investigation is made of operators T from E' to Lp which generate p-stable symmetric measures on the Banach space E.