Harmonic analysis in the complex domain and applications in the theory of analytic and infinitely differentiable functions (Q1317292)

In this short survey, the author exposes the results achieved as some Denjoy-Carleman type theorems on the uniqueness of certain general classes of so-called \(\alpha\)-quasi-analytic infinitely differentiable functions. The problem was appeared as a generalization of the Denjoy (1921)-Carleman (1926) theorem. In the work [An extension of the Denjoy- Carleman quasi-analytic class, Izv. Akad. Nauk Armjan. SSR; translation from Am. Math. Soc., Translat., II. Ser. 110, 1-59 (1977; Zbl 0371.30034)] the author proposed the following generalization: ``Assume that \(\{M_ n\}^ \infty_ 1\) is an arbitrary sequence of positive numbers and \(T(\tau)= \sup\{ \tau^ n M_ n;\;n\geq 1\}\). Suppose that \(\gamma\in (0, +\infty)\) is given.`` The problem is to find ``how may classes \(C_ \gamma\{M_ n\}\) of functions \(\varphi(x)\) \((x\in [0, +\infty)\) or \(x\in [0, \ell])\) and the simplest functionals \(\{L_ n^ \gamma\varphi\}_{n= 0}^ \infty\) be defined so that the condition \[ \int^ \infty_ 1 \tau^{-1-\gamma}\ln T(\tau) d\tau= +\infty \] turns out to be equivalent to the assertion that for any function \(\varphi\in C_ \gamma \{M_ n\}\), the equalities \(L_ n^ \gamma \varphi= 0\) \((n= 0,1,2,\dots)\) yield the identity \(\varphi(x)\equiv 0\) \((x\in [0, +\infty)\) or \(x\in [0, \ell])\)?'' In the loc. cit. work, the author discovered a method for the solution of this general problem on the half-line \([0, +\infty)\). The method permits a reduction of the problem of \(\alpha\)-quasi-analyticity to the well- known problem of Watson. The author introduces the classes \(C_ \alpha \{[0, +\infty), M_ n\}\), \(C_ \alpha^*\{[0, +\infty), M_ n\}\) of \(\alpha\)-quasi-analytic functions by using the Riemann-Liouville integral and Riemann-Liouville derivative and the solution of some Cauchy type problems for special differential operators of fractional order. For these classes \(C_ \alpha^*\) or \(C_ \alpha\), \(\alpha\)-quasi-analyticity is equivalent to the condition \[ \int^ \infty_ 1 \tau^{-(1+ 1/(1+ \alpha))}\ln T(\tau) d\tau=+ \infty\quad\text{or}\quad \int_ 1^ \infty\tau^{- (1+{1-\alpha\over {1+\alpha}})} \ln T(\tau) d\tau=+ \infty,\text{ resp}.. \] Very closed to this topic is the author's book [Harmonic analysis and boundary value problems in the complex domain (1993; Zbl 0798.43001)].