Stability of order and type under perturbation of the spectral measure (Q2329582)

Summary: It is known that the type of a measure is stable under perturbations consisting of exponentially small redistribution of mass and exponentially small additive summands. This fact can be seen as stability of de~Branges chains in the corresponding \(L^2\)-spaces. We investigate stability of de~Branges chains in \(L^2\)-spaces under perturbations having the same form, but allow other magnitudes for the error. The admissible size of a perturbation is connected with the maximal growth of functions in the chain and is measured by means of a growth function \(\lambda\). The main result is a fast growth theorem. It states that an alternative takes place when passing to a perturbed measure: either the original de Branges chain remains dense, or its closure must contain functions with faster growth than \(\lambda\). For the growth function \(\lambda(r)=r\), i.e., exponentially small perturbations, the aforementioned known fact is reobtained. We propose a notion of order of a measure and show stability and monotonicity properties of this notion. The cases of exponential type (order 1) and very slow growth (logarithmic order \(\leq 2)\) turn out to be particular.