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Local well posedness for a linear coagulation equation
In this paper we derive some a priori estimates for a class of linear
coagulation equations with particle fluxes towards large size particles. The
derived estimates allow us to prove local well posedness for the considered
equations. Some regularizing effects exhibited by the equations in the particle
distributions for large particle sizes are discussed in detail.Comment: 71 page
Matrix orthogonal polynomials whose derivatives are also orthogonal
In this paper we prove some characterizations of the matrix orthogonal
polynomials whose derivatives are also orthogonal, which generalize other known
ones in the scalar case. In particular, we prove that the corresponding
orthogonality matrix functional is characterized by a Pearson-type equation
with two matrix polynomials of degree not greater than 2 and 1. The proofs are
given for a general sequence of matrix orthogonal polynomials, not necessarily
associated with an hermitian functional. However, we give several examples of
non-diagonalizable positive definite weight matrices satisfying a Pearson-type
equation, which show that the previous results are non-trivial even in the
positive definite case.
A detailed analysis is made for the class of matrix functionals which satisfy
a Pearson-type equation whose polynomial of degree not greater than 2 is
scalar. We characterize the Pearson-type equations of this kind that yield a
sequence of matrix orthogonal polynomials, and we prove that these matrix
orthogonal polynomials satisfy a second order differential equation even in the
non-hermitian case. Finally, we prove and improve a conjecture of Duran and
Grunbaum concerning the triviality of this class in the positive definite case,
while some examples show the non-triviality for hermitian functionals which are
not positive definite.Comment: 49 page
Minimal representations of unitary operators and orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle
In this paper we prove that the simplest band representations of unitary
operators on a Hilbert space are five-diagonal. Orthogonal polynomials on the
unit circle play an essential role in the development of this result, and also
provide a parametrization of such five-diagonal representations which shows
specially simple and interesting decomposition and factorization properties. As
an application we get the reduction of the spectral problem of any unitary
Hessenberg matrix to the spectral problem of a five-diagonal one. Two
applications of these results to the study of orthogonal polynomials on the
unit circle are presented: the first one concerns Krein's Theorem; the second
one deals with the movement of mass points of the orthogonality measure under
monoparametric perturbations of the Schur parameters.Comment: 31 page
Optimal bounds for self-similar solutions to coagulation equations with product kernel
We consider mass-conserving self-similar solutions of Smoluchowski's
coagulation equation with multiplicative kernel of homogeneity . We establish rigorously that such solutions exhibit a singular behavior
of the form as . This property had been
conjectured, but only weaker results had been available up to now
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