{ "id": "1607.03206", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-07-12T00:30:02.000Z", "updated": "2016-07-12T00:30:02.000Z", "title": "A calculus proof of the Cramér-Wold theorem", "authors": [ "Russell Lyons", "Kevin Zumbrun" ], "comment": "4 pages", "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "We present a short, elementary proof not involving Fourier transforms of the theorem of Cram\\'er and Wold that a Borel probability measure is determined by its values on half-spaces.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-07-12T00:30:02.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "60E10", "44A12", "53C65" ], "keywords": [ "cramér-wold theorem", "calculus proof", "borel probability measure", "fourier transforms", "elementary proof" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 4, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }