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A constructive approach to the truncated moment problem on cubic curves in Weierstrass form

Functional Analysis 2026-05-12 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a constructive solution for the pure truncated moment problem on cubic curves in Weierstrass form, establishing the existence of a representing measure whose number of atoms equals the rank of the associated moment matrix. By a recent result of Baldi, Blekherman, and Sinn, for projectively smooth curves whose projective closure has exactly one real point at infinity, the existence of such a rank-attaining atomic measure is equivalent to the existence of a representing measure; consequently, the TMP is constructively solved for this class of curves. We also present a numerical degree--66 example in which every minimal representing measure supported on the cubic curve requires rankM(3)+1\operatorname{rank} M(3)+1 atoms, where M(3)M(3) denotes the moment matrix. Finally, we provide a constructive solution for the symmetric case, i.e., when all moments of odd degree in yy vanish.

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@article{arxiv.2605.08719,
  title  = {A constructive approach to the truncated moment problem on cubic curves in Weierstrass form},
  author = {Abhishek Bhardwaj and Aljaž Zalar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.08719},
  year   = {2026}
}

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18 pages