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Pick matricies and quaternionic power series

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2014-05-16 v1

Abstract

It is well known that a non-constant complex-valued function ff defined on the open unit disk D\mathbb D is an analytic self-mapping of \D\D if and only if Pick matrices [(1f(zi)f(zj))/(1zizj)]i,j=1n\left[ (1-f(z_i)\overline{f(z_j)})/(1-z_i\overline{z}_j)\right]_{i,j=1}^n are positive semidefinite for all choices of finitely many points zi\Dz_i\in\D. A stronger version of the "if" part was established by Alan Hindmarsh: if all 3×33\times 3 Pick matrices are positive semidefinite, then ff is an analytic self-mapping of D\mathbb D. In this paper, we extend this result to the non-commutative setting of power series over quaternions.

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@article{arxiv.1405.3706,
  title  = {Pick matricies and quaternionic power series},
  author = {Vladimir Bolotnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.3706},
  year   = {2014}
}
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