Direct and inverse polynomial perturbations of hermitian linear functionals

AbstractThis paper is devoted to the study of direct and inverse (Laurent) polynomial modifications of moment functionals on the unit circle, i.e., associated with hermitian Toeplitz matrices. We present a new approach which allows us to study polynomial modifications of arbitrary degree.The main objective is the characterization of the quasi-definiteness of the functionals involved in the problem in terms of a difference equation relating the corresponding Schur parameters. The results are presented in the general framework of (non-necessarily quasi-definite) hermitian functionals, so that the maximum number of orthogonal polynomials is characterized by the number of consistent steps of an algorithm based on the referred recurrence for the Schur parameters.The non-uniqueness of the inverse problem makes it more interesting than the direct one. Due to this reason, special attention is paid to the inverse modification, showing that different approaches are possible depending on the data about the polynomial modification at hand. These different approaches are translated as different kinds of initial conditions for the related inverse algorithm.Some concrete applications to the study of orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle show the effectiveness of this new approach: an exhaustive and instructive analysis of the functionals coming from a general inverse polynomial perturbation of degree one for the Lebesgue measure; the classification of those pairs of orthogonal polynomials connected by a certain type of linear relation with constant polynomial coefficients; and the determination of those orthogonal polynomials whose associated ones are related to a degree one polynomial modification of the original orthogonality functional

Distant perturbations of the Laplacian in a multi-dimensional space

We consider the Laplacian in $\mathbb{R}^n$ perturbed by a finite number of distant perturbations those are abstract localized operators. We study the asymptotic behaviour of the discrete spectrum as the distances between perturbations tend to infinity. The main results are the convergence theorem and the asymptotics expansions for the eigenelements. Some examples of the possible distant perturbations are given; they are potential, second order differential operator, magnetic Schrodinger operator, integral operator, and \d-potential

OPUC, CMV matrices and perturbations of measures supported on the unit circle

Let us consider a Hermitian linear functional defined on the linear space of Laurent polynomials with complex coefficients. In the literature, canonical spectral transformations of this functional are studied. The aim of this research is focused on perturbations of Hermitian linear functionals associated with a positive Borel measure supported on the unit circle. Some algebraic properties of the perturbed measure are pointed out in a constructive way. We discuss the corresponding sequences of orthogonal polynomials as well as the connection between the associated Verblunsky coefficients. Then, the structure of the Theta matrices of the perturbed linear functionals, which is the main tool for the comparison of their corresponding CMV matrices, is deeply analyzed. From the comparison between different CMV matrices, other families of perturbed Verblunsky coefficients will be considered. We introduce a new matrix, named Fundamental matrix, that is a tridiagonal symmetric unitary matrix, containing basic information about the family of orthogonal polynomials. However, we show that it is connected to another family of orthogonal polynomials through the Takagi decomposition.The authors would like to thank Professor Bernhard Beckermann and Professor RogerA. Horn for valuable and insightful discussions about congruence relations. We also thank the suggestions by the referees which have contributed to improve substantially the presentation of the manuscript. The work of the first author (FM) was partially sup-ported by Dirección General de Política Científica y Tecnológica, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain, under grant MTM2012-36732-C03-01. The sec-ond author (NS) thanks Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the support and the Department of Mathematics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, for its constant support and friendly atmosphere during the period January–July 2014 when the manuscript was finished

Beyond the Spectral Theorem: Spectrally Decomposing Arbitrary Functions of Nondiagonalizable Operators

Nonlinearities in finite dimensions can be linearized by projecting them into infinite dimensions. Unfortunately, often the linear operator techniques that one would then use simply fail since the operators cannot be diagonalized. This curse is well known. It also occurs for finite-dimensional linear operators. We circumvent it by developing a meromorphic functional calculus that can decompose arbitrary functions of nondiagonalizable linear operators in terms of their eigenvalues and projection operators. It extends the spectral theorem of normal operators to a much wider class, including circumstances in which poles and zeros of the function coincide with the operator spectrum. By allowing the direct manipulation of individual eigenspaces of nonnormal and nondiagonalizable operators, the new theory avoids spurious divergences. As such, it yields novel insights and closed-form expressions across several areas of physics in which nondiagonalizable dynamics are relevant, including memoryful stochastic processes, open non unitary quantum systems, and far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics. The technical contributions include the first full treatment of arbitrary powers of an operator. In particular, we show that the Drazin inverse, previously only defined axiomatically, can be derived as the negative-one power of singular operators within the meromorphic functional calculus and we give a general method to construct it. We provide new formulae for constructing projection operators and delineate the relations between projection operators, eigenvectors, and generalized eigenvectors. By way of illustrating its application, we explore several, rather distinct examples.Comment: 29 pages, 4 figures, expanded historical citations; http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~cmg/compmech/pubs/bst.ht