An indeterminate rational moment problem and Carathéodory functions

An indeterminate rational moment problem and Carathéodory functions


Adhemar Bultheel       Pablo González-Vera       Erik Hendriksen       Olav Njåstad


Abstract: Let $B_0 = 1$, and $B_n$ be the finite Blaschke products with zeros $\alpha_1,..., \alpha_n$, for $n = 1,2,...$ and $\mathcal{L}$ is the span of $B_0,B_1,B_2,\ldots$ then we consider the following moment problem:
Given a positive definite Hermitian inner product $\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle$ in $\mathcal{L}$ find a positive Borel measure $\mu$ on $[-\pi,\pi)$ such that $$ \langle f,g \rangle = \int_{-\pi}^\pi f(e^{i\theta})\overline{g(e^{i\theta})} d\mu(\theta),\quad f,g\in\mathcal{L}. $$ We assume that this moment problem is indeterminate. Under some additional conditions on the $\alpha_n$, we will describe a one-to-one correspondence between the collection of all solutions to this moment problem and the collection of all Carathéodory functions augmented by the constant $\infty$.

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Published on line July 11, 2008

BiBTeX entry:

   @article{ArtBGHN06a,
      author = "A. Bultheel and P. Gonz{\'a}lez-Vera and E. Hendriksen and O. Nj{\aa}stad",
      journal = "Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics",
      pages = "359-369",
      title = "An indeterminate rational moment problem and {C}arath{\'e}odory functions",
      volume = "219",
      number = "2",
      year = "2008",
      url = "http://nalag.cs.kuleuven.be/papers/ade/IRMP/index.html",
      DOI = "10.1016/j.cam.2007.05.002",
      ZBL = "1149.30001",
      MR = "2441231",
      LIMO = "1128213",
   }
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