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Polyharmonicity and algebraic support of measures

Complex Variables 2011-12-08 v1 Functional Analysis Numerical Analysis Spectral Theory

Abstract

We introduce a multivariate Markov transform which generalizes the well-known one-dimensional Stieltjes transform from the Moment problem and Spectral theory. Our main result states that two measures {\mu} and {\nu} with bounded support contained in the zero set of a polynomial P(x) are equal if they coincide on the subspace of all polynomials of polyharmonic degree N_{P} where the natural number N_{P} is explictly computed by the properties of the polynomial P(x). The method of proof depends on a definition of a multivariate Markov transform which another major objective of the present paper. The classical notion of orthogonal polynomial of second kind is generalized to the multivariate setting: it is a polyharmonic function which has similar features as in the one-dimensional case.

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@article{arxiv.1112.1511,
  title  = {Polyharmonicity and algebraic support of measures},
  author = {Ognyan Kounchev and Hermann Render},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.1511},
  year   = {2011}
}

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20 pages

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