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What is the necessary condition for a sum $Z=X+Y$ of two normal random variables $X$ and $Y$ to be a normal random variable?

If this is too difficult to state in general, what are some sufficient conditions for that (besides the well-known sufficient condition that the random vector $(X,Y)$ is multivariate normal)?

(A related thread Is joint normality a necessary condition for the sum of normal random variables to be normal? exemplifies that joint normality is not a necessary condition.)

Richard Hardy
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