A note on asymptotics of linear combinations of iid random variables

Let X₁,X₂, ... be iid random variables, and let a _n = (a ₁,n, ..., a _n,n ) be an arbitrary sequence of weights. We investigate the asymptotic distribution of the linear combination $ S_{a_n } $ S_{a_n } = a _1,n X ₁ + ... + a _n,n X _n under the natural negligibility condition lim _n→∞ max{|a _k,n |: k = 1, ..., n} = 0. We prove that if $ S_{a_n } $ S_{a_n } is asymptotically normal for a weight sequence a _n , in which the components are of the same magnitude, then the common distribution belongs to $ \mathbb{D} $ \mathbb{D} (2).