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The strong truncated Hamburger moment problem with and without gaps

Functional Analysis 2022-12-06 v2

Abstract

The strong truncated Hamburger moment problem (STHMP) of degree (2k1,2k2)(-2k_1,2k_2) asks to find necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a positive Borel measure, supported on R{0}\mathbb{R}\setminus \{0\}, such that βi=xidμ  (2k1i2k2)\beta_i=\int x^id\mu\; (-2k_1\leq i\leq 2k_2). Using the solution of the truncated Hamburger moment problem and the properties of Hankel matrices we solve the STHMP. Then, using the equivalence with the STHMP of degree (2k,2k)(-2k,2k), we obtain the solution of the 2-dimensional truncated moment problem (TMP) of degree 2k2k with variety xy=1xy=1, first solved by Curto and Fialkow. Our addition to their result is the fact previously known only for k=2k=2, that the existence of a measure is equivalent to the existence of a flat extension of the moment matrix. Further on, we solve the STHMP of degree (2k1,2k2)(-2k_1,2k_2) with one missing moment in the sequence, i.e., β2k1+1\beta_{-2k_1+1} or β2k21\beta_{2k_2-1}, which also gives the solution of the TMP with variety x2y=1x^2y=1 as a special case, first studied by Fialkow.

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@article{arxiv.2101.00486,
  title  = {The strong truncated Hamburger moment problem with and without gaps},
  author = {Aljaž Zalar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00486},
  year   = {2022}
}

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20 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2007.11846

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