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This is mostly a review of results and proofs related to asymptotic expansions for characteristic functions of sums of independent random variables (known also as Edgeworth-type expansions). A number of known results is refined in terms of Lyapunov coefficients of non-integer orders.
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Sergey G. Bobkov would like to thank Irina Shevtsova for reading of the manuscript, valuable comments, and additional references.
Partially supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and NSF grant DMS-1612961.
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Bobkov, S.G. (2017). Asymptotic Expansions for Products of Characteristic Functions Under Moment Assumptions of Non-integer Orders. In: Carlen, E., Madiman, M., Werner, E. (eds) Convexity and Concentration. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, vol 161. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7005-6_11
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