Symmetric moment problems and a conjecture of Valent

Ch. Berg   ; R. Szwarc

Sbornik. Mathematics, Tome 208 (2017) no. 3, pp. 335-359

Résumé

In 1998 Valent made conjectures about the order and type of certain indeterminate Stieltjes moment problems associated with birth and death processes which have polynomial birth and death rates of degree $p\geqslant 3$. Romanov recently proved that the order is $1/p$ as conjectured. We prove that the type with respect to the order is related to certain multi-zeta values and that this type belongs to the interval $$ \biggl[\frac{\pi}{p\sin(\pi/p)},\,\frac{\pi}{p\sin(\pi/p)\cos(\pi/p)}\biggr], $$ which also contains the conjectured value. This proves that the conjecture about type is asymptotically correct as $p\to\infty$. The main idea is to obtain estimates for order and type of symmetric indeterminate Hamburger moment problems when the orthonormal polynomials $P_n$ and those of the second kind $Q_n$ satisfy $P_{2n}^2(0)\sim c_1n^{-1/\beta}$ and $Q_{2n-1}^2(0)\sim c_2 n^{-1/\alpha}$, where $0<\alpha,\beta<1$ may be different, and $c_1$ and $c_2$ are positive constants. In this case the order of the moment problem is majorized by the harmonic mean of $\alpha$ and $\beta$. Here $\alpha_n\sim \beta_n$ means that $\alpha_n/\beta_n\to 1$. This also leads to a new proof of Romanov's Theorem that the order is $1/p$. Bibliography: 19 titles.

Détail

Keywords: indeterminate moment problem, birth and death process with polynomial rates, multi-zeta values.

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