Some Extensions of Loewner's Theory of Monotone Operator Functions

Several extensions of Loewner's theory of monotone operator functions are given. These include a theorem on boundary interpolation for matrix-valued functions in the generalized Nevanlinna class. The theory of monotone operator functions is generalized from scalar-to matrix-valued functions of an operator argument. A notion of κ-monotonicity is introduced and characterized in terms of classical Nevanlinna functions with removable singularities on a real interval. Corresponding results for Stieltjes functions are presented.     

Products of generalized Nevanlinna functions with symmetric rational functions

New classes of generalized Nevanlinna functions, which under multiplication with an arbitrary fixed symmetric rational function remain generalized Nevanlinna functions, are introduced. Characterizations for these classes of functions are established by connecting the canonical factorizations of the product function and the original generalized Nevanlinna function in a constructive manner. Also, a detailed functional analytic treatment of these classes of functions is carried out by investigating the connection between the realizations of the product function and the original function. The operator theoretic treatment of these realizations is based on the notions of rigged spaces, boundary triplets, and associated Weyl functions.     

Tangential Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation and Its Connection with Hamburger Matrix Moment Problem

This paper is concerned with the solution of a certain tangential Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation for Nevanlinna functions. We use the so-called block Hankel vector method to establish two intrinsic connections between the tangential Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation in the Nevanlinna class and the truncated Hamburger matrix moment problem associated with the block Hankel vector under consideration: one is a congruent relationship between their information matrices, and the other is a divisor-remainder connection between their solutions. These investigations generalize our previous work on the Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation and power matrix moment problem.     

Painleve I, Coverings of the Sphere and Belyi Functions

The theory of poles of solutions of Painleve I (PI) is equivalent to the Nevanlinna problem of constructing a meromorphic function ramified over five points—counting multiplicities—and without critical points. We construct such meromorphic functions as limits of rational ones. In the case of the tritronquée solution, they turn out to be Belyi functions.     

Solution of a multiple Nevanlinna–Pick problem for Carathéodory functions via orthogonal rational functions in the matrix case

We consider an interpolation problem of Nevanlinna–Pick type for matrix‐valued Carathéodory functions, where the values of the functions and its derivatives up to certain orders are given at finitely many points of the open unit disk. For the non‐degenerate case, i.e., in the particular situation that a specific block matrix (which is formed by the given data in the problem) is positive Hermitian, the solution set of this problem is described in terms of orthogonal rational matrix‐valued functions. These rational matrix functions play here a similar role as Szegő's orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle in the classical case of the trigonometric moment problem. In particular, we present and use a connection between Szegő and Schur parameters for orthogonal rational matrix‐valued functions which in the primary situation of orthogonal polynomials was found by Geronimus. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Boundary Nevanlinna�CPick interpolation via reduction and augmentation

We give an elementary proof of Sarason??s solvability criterion for the Nevanlinna?CPick problem with boundary interpolation nodes and boundary target values. We also give a concrete parametrization of all solutions of such a problem. The proofs are based on a reduction method due to Julia and Nevanlinna. Reduction of functions corresponds to Schur complementation of the corresponding Pick matrices.     

Linearizations of a class of elliptic boundary value problems

We construct linearizations for a class of second order elliptic eigenvalue dependent boundary value problems on smooth bounded domains with rational operator-valued Nevanlinna functions in the boundary condition. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Nonlinear inversion of a band-limited Fourier transform

We consider the problem of reconstructing a compactly supported function with singularities either from values of its Fourier transform available only in a bounded interval or from a limited number of its Fourier coefficients. Our results are based on several observations and algorithms in [G. Beylkin, L. Monzón, On approximation of functions by exponential sums, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal. 19 (1) (2005) 17–48]. We avoid both the Gibbs phenomenon and the use of windows or filtering by constructing approximations to the available Fourier data via a short sum of decaying exponentials. Using these exponentials, we extrapolate the Fourier data to the whole real line and, on taking the inverse Fourier transform, obtain an efficient rational representation in the spatial domain. An important feature of this rational representation is that the positions of its poles indicate location of singularities of the function. We consider these representations in the absence of noise and discuss the impact of adding white noise to the Fourier data. We also compare our results with those obtained by other techniques. As an example of application, we consider our approach in the context of the kernel polynomial method for estimating density of states (eigenvalues) of Hermitian operators. We briefly consider the related problem of approximation by rational functions and provide numerical examples using our approach.     

On a G. Boole’s Identity for Rational Functions and Some Trace Formulas

In 1857 George Boole found an identity for a class of rational functions, which for a given function, connects the sum of its residues at finite points with the difference between the sums of its zeros and poles. We consider generalizations of this identity to the case of Nevanlinna functions. We apply these results to obtain some new trace formulas for infinite Jacobi matrices and for differential operators of the second order.     

The growth order of solutions of systems of complex difference equations

Using Nevanlinna theory of the value distribution of meromorphic functions and Wiman-Valiron theory of entire functions, we investigate the problem of growth order of solutions of a type of systems of difference equations, and extend some results of the growth order of solutions of systems of differential equations to systems of difference equations.     

高阶复线性微分方程解的角域增长性

本文研究了高阶复线性微分方程解在角域上的增长性问题.利用Nevanlinna理论和共形变换的方法,获得了一些使得方程非平凡解在角域上有快速增长的系数条件,这些结果丰富了复方程解在角域上增长性的研究.     

E_m函数类中Nevanlinna-Pick插值与广义Stieltjes矩量问题

令E\-m=(-∞,∞)＼∪[DD(]m[]j=1[DD)](α\-j,β\-j).函数类[WTHT]N[WTBX](E\-m)表示在上半复平面解析且虚部非负,在诸(α\-j,β\-j)(j=1,…,m)内解析且为实值的函数全体.该文用Hankel 向量方法建立[WTHT]N[WTBX](E\-m)函数类 中含有限(或无限可数)插值点的Nevanlinna Pick 问题与集合E\-m上 相关的非标准截断(或全)广义Stieltjes 矩量问题解集之间的一一对应.用类似于Riesz的办法建立E\-m上非标准截断广义Stieltjes矩量问题的可解性准则,从而获得了[WTHT]N[WTBX](E\-m)函数类中Nevanlinna Pick问题的可解性准则.     

ON THE GROWTH OF SOLUTIONS OF HIGHER-ORDER ALGEBRAIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Using Nevanlinna theory of the value distribution of meromorphic functions, the author investigates the problem of the growth of solutions of two types of algebraic differential equation and obtains some results.     

Strong asymptotics of the recurrence coefficients of orthogonal polynomials associated to the generalized Jacobi weight

We study asymptotics of the recurrence coefficients of orthogonal polynomials associated to the generalized Jacobi weight, which is a weight function with a finite number of algebraic singularities on [−1,1]. The recurrence coefficients can be written in terms of the solution of the corresponding Riemann–Hilbert (RH) problem for orthogonal polynomials. Using the steepest descent method of Deift and Zhou, we analyze the RH problem, and obtain complete asymptotic expansions of the recurrence coefficients. We will determine explicitly the order 1/n terms in the expansions. A critical step in the analysis of the RH problem will be the local analysis around the algebraic singularities, for which we use Bessel functions of appropriate order. In addition, the RH approach gives us also strong asymptotics of the orthogonal polynomials near the algebraic singularities in terms of Bessel functions.     

On Mordell–Weil groups of isotrivial abelian varieties over function fields

We show that the Mordell–Weil rank of an isotrivial abelian variety with cyclic holonomy depends only on the fundamental group of the complement to the discriminant, provided the discriminant has singularities in CM class introduced here. This class of singularities includes all unibranched plane curves singularities. As a corollary, we describe a family of simple Jacobians over the field of rational functions in two variables for which the Mordell–Weil rank is arbitrarily large.     

Stieltjes Moment Problems and the Friedrichs Extension of a Positive Definite Operator

For an indeterminate Stieltjes moment sequence the multiplication operator Mp(x) = xp(x) is positive definite and has self-adjoint extensions. Exactly one of these extensions has the same lower bound as M, the so-called Friedrichs extension. The spectral measure of this extension gives a certain solution to the moment problem and we identify the corresponding parameter value in the Nevanlinna parametrization of all solutions to the moment problem. In the case where σ is indeterminate in the sense of Stieltjes, relations between the (Nevanlinna matrices of) entire functions associated with the measures t^kdσ(t) are derived. The growth of these entire functions is also investigated.     

Superlinear convergence of the rational Arnoldi method for the approximation of matrix functions

A superlinear convergence bound for rational Arnoldi approximations to functions of matrices is derived. This bound generalizes the well-known superlinear convergence bound for the conjugate gradient method to more general functions with finite singularities and to rational Krylov spaces. A constrained equilibrium problem from potential theory is used to characterize a max-min quotient of a nodal rational function underlying the rational Arnoldi approximation, where an additional external field is required for taking into account the poles of the rational Krylov space. The resulting convergence bound is illustrated at several numerical examples, in particular, the convergence of the extended Krylov method for the matrix square root.     

Differential Forms on Quasihomogeneous Noncomplete Intersections

In this article, we discuss a few simple methods for computing the Poincaré series of modules of differential forms given on quasihomogeneous noncomplete intersections of various types. Among them are curves associated with a semigroup, bouquets of such curves, affine cones over rational or elliptic curves, and normal determinantal and toric varieties, including some types of quotient singularities, as well as cones over the Veronese embedding of projective spaces or over the Segre embedding of products of projective spaces, rigid singularities, fans, etc. In many cases, correct formulas can be derived without resorting to analysis of complicated resolvents or using computer systems of algebraic calculations. The obtained results allow us to compute the basic invariants of singularities in an explicit form by means of elementary operations on rational functions.     

Interpolation in the Nevanlinna and Smirnov classes and harmonic majorants

We consider a free interpolation problem in Nevanlinna and Smirnov classes and find a characterization of the corresponding interpolating sequences in terms of the existence of harmonic majorants of certain functions. We also consider the related problem of characterizing positive functions in the disk having a harmonic majorant. An answer is given in terms of a dual relation which involves positive measures in the disk with bounded Poisson balayage. We deduce necessary and sufficient geometric conditions, both expressed in terms of certain maximal functions.