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On polygonal measures with vanishing harmonic moments

Complex Variables 2014-11-12 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

A signed polygonal measure is the sum of finitely many real constant density measures supported on polygons. Given a finite set S in the plane, we study the existence of signed polygonal measures spanned by polygons with vertices in S, which have all harmonic moments vanishing. For S generic, we show that the dimension of the linear space of such measures is (|S|-3)(|S|-4)/2. We also investigate the situation where the resulting density is either 0, or 1, or -1, which corresponds to pairs of polygons of unit density having the same logarithmic potential at infinity. We show that such a signed measure does not exist if |S| is at most 5, but for each n at least 6 there exists an S, with |S|=n, giving rise to such a signed measure.

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@article{arxiv.1209.4014,
  title  = {On polygonal measures with vanishing harmonic moments},
  author = {Dmitrii Pasechnik and Boris Shapiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.4014},
  year   = {2014}
}

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15 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX

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