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The characteristic function for the Poisson distribution is given by
$$ e^{\lambda\left(e^{i\theta}-1\right)}=e^{\lambda\left(\cos\theta-1\right)}\left(\cos(\lambda\sin\theta)+i\sin(\lambda\sin\theta)\right) $$
