Positivity of Riesz functionals and solutions of quadratic and quartic moment problems (Q1048166)

The authors study some connections between the positivity of Riesz functionals and the solutions of quadratic and quartic moment problems. They show that a truncated moment sequence \({\mathbf y}\) lies in the closure of truncated moment sequences admitting representing measures supported in a prescribed closed set \(K\subset\mathbb R^n\) if and only if the associated Riesz functional \(L_{\mathbf y}\) is \(K\)-positive. This leads the authors to solve the truncated \(K\)-moment problem in some special cases, in particular, they give solutions to the truncated moment problem in the remaining open cases of Hilbert's theorem on the sums of squares.