We investigate long and short memory in α-stable moving averages and max-stable processes with α-Fréchet marginal distributions. As these processes are heavy-tailed, we rely on the notion of long range dependence based on the covariance of indicators of excursion sets. Sufficient conditions...

A random variable is difference-form decomposable (DFD) if it may be written as the difference of two i.i.d. random terms. We show that densities of such variables exhibit a remarkable degree of structure. Specifically, a DFD density can be neither approximately uniform, nor quasiconvex, nor...