Is the following sequence a moment seqence?

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Is the sequence $$\Bigl( \frac{1}{n+1} \Bigr)^\alpha,\quad n \geq 0$$ a moment sequence for any $\alpha \in (0,1]$ for some random variable on [0,1]?

We have tried checking whether the corresponding matrix is positive definite, this did not show that it was not a moment sequence.

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HINT:

Yes, it is, see Hausdorff moment problem. Also, this follows from the fact that the function

$$ s \mapsto \frac{1}{(1+s)^{\alpha}}$$

is totally monotone ( Bernstein theorem).

In fact you can produce a density on $[0,1]$ with its moment sequence the given one. You only need to find the inverse Laplace transform of $\frac{1}{(1 + s)^{\alpha}}$.