Wall’s continued-fraction characterization of Hausdorff moment sequences: A conceptual proof

DOI10.1090/PROC/14884MaRDI QIDQ5221353zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alan D. Sokal

Publication date 25 March 2020

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.12455

zbMATH Keywords

binomial transformclassical moment problemcontinued fractionHamburger moment sequenceHausdorff moment sequenceStieltjes moment sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Continued fractions; complex-analytic aspects (30B70) Moment problems and interpolation problems in the complex plane (30E05) Moment problems (44A60)

Abstract: I give an elementary proof of Wall's continued-fraction characterization of Hausdorff moment sequences.

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