Inverse spectral problems for positive Hankel operators
Abstract
A Hankel operator in is an integral operator with the integral kernel of the form , where is known as the kernel function. It is known that is positive semi-definite if and only if is the Laplace transform of a positive measure on . Thus, positive semi-definite Hankel operators are parameterised by measures on . We consider the class of corresponding to \emph{finite} measures . In this case it is possible to define the (scalar) spectral measure of in a natural way. The measure is also finite on . This defines the \emph{spectral map} on finite measures on . We prove that this map is an involution; in particular, it is a bijection. We also consider a dual variant of this problem for measures that are not necessarily finite but have the finite integral we call such measures \emph{co-finite}.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2503.22189,
title = {Inverse spectral problems for positive Hankel operators},
author = {Alexander Pushnitski and Sergei Treil},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.22189},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
final version (minor updates). To appear in Analysis & PDE