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Abstract
We prove that the law of a random walk is determined by the one-dimensional distributions of for , as conjectured recently by Loïc Chaumont and Ron Doney. Equivalently, the law of is determined by its upward space-time Wiener–Hopf factor. Our methods are complex-analytic.
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