Positive definite functions on semilattices

Abstract: We introduce a notion of positive definiteness for functions

f! : P o m a t h b b R

defined on meet semilattices

(P, p r e c e q, w e d g e)

and prove several properties for these functions. In addition, we utilize the

L D L^{m T}

decomposition of meet matrices in order to explore the properties of multivariate positive definite arithmetic functions

f! : m a t h b b Z_{+}^{d} o m a t h b b R

. Finally, we give a series of examples and counterexamples of positive definite functions.

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