## The Annals of Probability

### Permanental vectors with nonsymmetric kernels

Nathalie Eisenbaum

#### Abstract

A permanental vector with a symmetric kernel and index $2$ is a squared Gaussian vector. The definition of permanental vectors is a natural extension of the definition of squared Gaussian vectors to nonsymmetric kernels and to positive indexes. The only known permanental vectors either have a positive definite kernel or are infinitely divisible. Are there some others? We present a partial answer to this question.

#### Article information

Source
Ann. Probab., Volume 45, Number 1 (2017), 210-224.

Dates
Revised: January 2015
First available in Project Euclid: 26 January 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1485421332

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/15-AOP1008

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3601649

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1375.60080

#### Citation

Eisenbaum, Nathalie. Permanental vectors with nonsymmetric kernels. Ann. Probab. 45 (2017), no. 1, 210--224. doi:10.1214/15-AOP1008. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1485421332

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