On the shape of the ground state eigenfunction for stable processes
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We prove that the ground state eigenfunction for symmetric stable processes of order $α\in (0, 2)$ killed upon leaving the interval $(-1, 1)$ is concave on $(-{1/2}, {1/2})$. We call this property "mid--concavity." A similar statement holds for rectangles in $\R^d$, $d>1$. These result follow from similar results for finite dimensional distributions of Brownian motion and subordination.