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A Question About Total Positivity and Newman's Fourier Transforms with Real Zeroes

Functional Analysis 2021-04-13 v1

Abstract

Given a unitarily invariant ergodic measure on ×\infty\times \infty Hermitian matrices, it is known that the characteristic function determines (and is determined by) a Polya frequency function p(t)p(t). In turn the (finite) measure dρ(u):=1p(iu2)dud\rho(u):=\frac{1}{p(-iu^2)}du has the property that the Fourier transform ZbZ_b of exp(bu2)dρ(u)exp(-bu^2)d\rho(u) is an entire function and has real zeroes, for all b0b\ge 0; this is very close (but not identical) to a classification of such measures due to Newman. This raises the question of whether there is a direct connection between (e.g. the spectrum of) random Hermitian matrices and the reality of the zeroes of ZbZ_b.

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@article{arxiv.2104.05143,
  title  = {A Question About Total Positivity and Newman's Fourier Transforms with Real Zeroes},
  author = {Doug Pickrell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.05143},
  year   = {2021}
}

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