In his 1922 article [l] on functions of bounded variation, Vitali gave a method for constructing monotone non-absolutely continuous functions, generalizing ideas from the ternary set introduced in another connection by Cantor. In [2], Hille and Tamarkin gave a full account of the "middle-third" function, showing it to be a singular distribution function, and finding its characteristic function. In [3], Evans obtained a generalization of the middle - third function by discarding middle intervals of length other than one-third, and obtained algorithms by which the moments of his function could be calculated. Invarious papers, among them [4], Wintner studied infinite convolutions of symmetric Bernoulli distributions, finding a great variety of distributions whose characteristic functions were of the form
Sumner, D. B. A Distribution Function of Cantor-Vitali Type. Canadian mathematical bulletin, Tome 7 (1964) no. 1, pp. 65-75. doi: 10.4153/CMB-1964-009-6
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