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On the trigonometric moment problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2012

AMELIA ÁLVAREZ ,
JOSÉ LUIS BRAVO  and
COLIN CHRISTOPHER
AMELIA ÁLVAREZ
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Extremadura, Avda. Elvas s/n, 06006 Badajoz, Spain (email: trinidad@unex.es)
JOSÉ LUIS BRAVO
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Extremadura, Avda. Elvas s/n, 06006 Badajoz, Spain (email: trinidad@unex.es)
COLIN CHRISTOPHER
Affiliation:
School of Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Technology), University of Plymouth, Room 9, 2 Kirkby Place, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, UK
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Abstract

The trigonometric moment problem arises from the study of one-parameter families of centers in polynomial vector fields. It seeks to classify the trigonometric polynomials $Q$ which are orthogonal to all powers of a trigonometric polynomial $P$. We show that this problem has a simple and natural solution under certain conditions on the monodromy group of the Laurent polynomial associated to $P$. In the case of real trigonometric polynomials, which is the primary motivation of the problem, our conditions are shown to hold for all trigonometric polynomials of degree 15 or less. In the complex case, we show that there are a small number of exceptional monodromy groups up to degree 30 where the conditions fail to hold and show how counterexamples can be constructed in several of these cases.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , February 2014 , pp. 1 - 20
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Copyright © 2012 Cambridge University Press 

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