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On the infinite-dimensional moment problem

Functional Analysis 2017-12-19 v1

Abstract

This paper deals with the moment problem on a (not necessarily finitely generated) commutative unital real algebra AA. We define moment functionals on AA as linear functionals which can be written as integrals over characters of AA with respect to cylinder measures. Our main results provide such integral representations for A+A_+--positive linear functionals (generalized Haviland theorem) and for positive functionals fulfilling Carleman conditions. As an application we solve the moment problem for the symmetric algebra S(V)S(V) of a real vector space VV. As a byproduct we obtain a new approaches to the moment problem on S(V)S(V) for a nuclear space VV and to the integral decomposition of continuous positive functionals on a barrelled nuclear topological algebra AA.

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@article{arxiv.1712.06360,
  title  = {On the infinite-dimensional moment problem},
  author = {Konrad Schmüdgen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06360},
  year   = {2017}
}
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