### When is a probability measure determined by infinitely many projections?

Claude Bélisle, Jean-Claude Massé, and Thomas Ransford
Source: Ann. Probab. Volume 25, Number 2 (1997), 767-786.

#### Abstract

The well-known Cramér-Wold theorem states that a Borel probability measure on $\mathbb{R}^d$ is uniquely determined by the totality of its one-dimensional projections. In this paper we examine various conditions under which a probability measure is determined by a subset of its $(d - 1)$-dimensional orthogonal projections.

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