A Sufficient Condition for Absolute Continuity of Infinitely Divisible Distributions

Abstract

We consider infinitely divisible distributions with symmetric L\'evy measure and study the absolute continuity of them with respect to the Lebesgue measure. We prove that if $\eta(r)=\int_{|x|\le r} x^2 \nu(dx)$ where $\nu$ is the L\'evy measure, then $\int_0^1 \frac{r}{\eta(r)}dr <\infty$ is a sufficient condition for absolute continuity. As far as we know, our result is not implied by existing results about absolute continuity of infinitely divisible distributions.