Cantor polynomials and some related classes of OPRL (Q2255301)

The authors begin the exploration of orthogonal polynomials on the real line where the underlying measure is of the simplest purely singular continuous type: the classical Cantor \(1/3\)-measure. This measure is the \(\delta=1/3\) case of a family parametrized by \[ \varphi_{\pm}(x)=\pm (1+\delta x),\;0<\delta\leq {1\over 2}, \] generating a unique probability measure \(\mu_{\delta}\) satisfying \[ \int f(x)dx={1\over 2}\,\int f(\varphi_{+}(x))d\mu+{1\over 2}\,\int f(\varphi_{-}(x))d\mu. \] \vskip0.3cm After a short introduction, Section 2 studies regularity and zero spacing (for the concept of regular measures and logarithmic capacity the reader is referred to the book by \textit{H. Stahl} and \textit{V. Totik} [General orthogonal polynomials. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1992; Zbl 0791.33009)]). Interesting results are covered in the Theorems 2.1--2.4. \vskip0.3cm Section 3 (Cantor polynomials: numeric results) gives numerical results encompassing 100,000 Jacobi parameters \(a_n\) for \(\delta=1/3\) and several other values of \(\delta\). This section also poses two conjecures on the behavior of these parameters. \vskip0.3cm In Section 4 the subject of finite gap sets is looked into in connection with `Isospectral tori' and in Section 5 this is followed by `Gap labeling' (Theorem 5.2) and `Borg's theorem' (Theorem 5.3). \vskip0.3cm The Sections 6 (Perturbation of the isospectral torus) and 7 (Dimension of the spectrum) give more results on the case of general \(\delta\). \vskip0.3cm The paper concludes with an appendix indicating how the numerical data were obtained and with a list of references containing 32 items.