Generalization of a theorem of Carathéodory

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/48/006MaRDI QIDQ3421679zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Salvino Ciccariello, Antonio Cervellino

Publication date 8 February 2007

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0605011

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Matrices, determinants in number theory (11C20) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Inverse scattering problems in quantum theory (81U40) Communication theory (94A05)

Abstract: Carath'eodory showed that $n$ complex numbers $c_1,\mathrm{...},c_n$ can uniquely be written in the form $c_p=su{m}_{j=1}^{m}h{o}_j{epsilo{n}_j}^p$ with $p=1,\mathrm{...},n$, where the $epsilo{n}_j$s are different unimodular complex numbers, the $h{o}_j$s are strictly positive numbers and integer $m$ never exceeds $n$. We give the conditions to be obeyed for the former property to hold true if the $h{o}_j$s are simply required to be real and different from zero. It turns out that the number of the possible choices of the signs of the $h{o}_j$s are {at most} equal to the number of the different eigenvalues of the Hermitian Toeplitz matrix whose $i,j$-th entry is $c_{j-i}$, where $c_{-p}$ is equal to the complex conjugate of $c_p$ and $c_0=0$. This generalization is relevant for neutron scattering. Its proof is made possible by a lemma - which is an interesting side result - that establishes a necessary and sufficient condition for the unimodularity of the roots of a polynomial based only on the polynomial coefficients. Keywords: Toeplitz matrix factorization, unimodular roots, neutron scattering, signal theory, inverse problems. PACS: 61.12.Bt, 02.30.Zz, 89.70.+c, 02.10.Yn, 02.50.Ga

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