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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
for some measure μ. If such a function μ exists, one asks whether it is unique.
The essential difference between this and other well-known moment problems is that this is on a half-line [0, ∞), whereas in the Hausdorff moment problem one considers a bounded interval [0, 1], and in the Hamburger moment problem one considers the whole line (−∞, ∞).
Existence[edit]
Let
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![{\displaystyle \Delta _{n}=\left[{\begin{matrix}m_{0}&m_{1}&m_{2}&\cdots &m_{n}\\m_{1}&m_{2}&m_{3}&\cdots &m_{n+1}\\m_{2}&m_{3}&m_{4}&\cdots &m_{n+2}\\\vdots &\vdots &\vdots &\ddots &\vdots \\m_{n}&m_{n+1}&m_{n+2}&\cdots &m_{2n}\end{matrix}}\right]}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/8206d416e2354bde00ecd3217b257609539b19c0)
be a Hankel matrix, and
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![{\displaystyle \Delta _{n}^{(1)}=\left[{\begin{matrix}m_{1}&m_{2}&m_{3}&\cdots &m_{n+1}\\m_{2}&m_{3}&m_{4}&\cdots &m_{n+2}\\m_{3}&m_{4}&m_{5}&\cdots &m_{n+3}\\\vdots &\vdots &\vdots &\ddots &\vdots \\m_{n+1}&m_{n+2}&m_{n+3}&\cdots &m_{2n+1}\end{matrix}}\right].}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/067bad63dc066fda432dc92c73a1724826746860)
Then { mn : n = 1, 2, 3, ... } is a moment sequence of some measure on
with infinite support if and only if for all n, both
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![{\displaystyle \det(\Delta _{n})>0\ \mathrm {and} \ \det \left(\Delta _{n}^{(1)}\right)>0.}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/b67058826b1e65f0363689d04b7e5e42631d9e26)
{ mn : n = 1, 2, 3, ... } is a moment sequence of some measure on
with finite support of size m if and only if for all
, both
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![{\displaystyle \det(\Delta _{n})>0\ \mathrm {and} \ \det \left(\Delta _{n}^{(1)}\right)>0}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/abf4db3cba427f80d6c7c9f6ce29394c836eb0c7)
and for all larger
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![{\displaystyle \det(\Delta _{n})=0\ \mathrm {and} \ \det \left(\Delta _{n}^{(1)}\right)=0.}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/c85ce6c176d3641899f4798f09ff1f4b7c147cde)
Uniqueness[edit]
There are several sufficient conditions for uniqueness, for example, Carleman's condition, which states that the solution is unique if
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![{\displaystyle \sum _{n\geq 1}m_{n}^{-1/(2n)}=\infty ~.}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/ad79ae978337a55dc8f2756963f3961e90d2fa88)
References[edit]
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Reed, Michael; Simon, Barry (1975), Fourier Analysis, Self-Adjointness, Methods of modern mathematical physics, vol. 2, Academic Press, p. 341 (exercise 25), ISBN 0-12-585002-6
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