Mathematics Colloquium

Speaker: 
Professor Daniel Alpay, Chapman University
Topic: 
Discrete analytic functions, structured matrices and a new family of moment problems

Abstract:

Using Zeilberger generating function formula for the values of a discrete analytic function in a quadrant we make connections with the theory of structured reproducing kernel spaces, structured matrices and a generalized moment problem. An important role is played by a Krein space realization result of Dijksma, Langer and de Snoo for functions analytic in a neighborhood of the origin. A key observation is that, using a simple Moebius transform, one can reduce the study of discrete analytic functions in the upper right quadrant to problems of function theory in the open unit disk. As an example, we associate to each finite positive measure on [0,2\pi] a discrete analytic function on the right-upper quarter plane with values on the lattice defining a positive definite function. Emphasis is put on the rational case, both when an underlying Carathéodory function is rational and when, in the positive case, the spectral function is rational. The rational case and the general case are linked via the existence of a unitary dilation, possibly in a Krein space.

The talk is base on joint work with F. Colombo, K. Diki, I. Sabadini and D. Volok, and appeared in Bulletin des sciences mathematiques (2022).

 

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Event Date: 
August 18, 2022 - 3:30pm
Location: 
B13 MLH or Online (See URL)
Calendar Category: 
Colloquium