Why There Are No Gaps In The Support Of Non-Negative Integer-Valued Infinitely Divisible Laws?

Abstract

Remark.9 in Bose-Dasgupta-Rubin (2002) review states that when a non-negative integer-valued infinitely divisible law has an atom at unity then its support cannot have any gaps. Here one has two questions. (i) Why there are no gaps and (ii) Can there be gaps if the condition is not satisfied. Our investigation with these questions in mind centers on the implications of having and not having atoms at zero and unity. We give two examples/ constructions, which show that the remark needs modification and we modify it.