The imaginary part of the characteristic function

DOI10.1007/S10474-017-0779-2MaRDI QIDQ1747967zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Saulius Norvidas

Publication date 27 April 2018

Published in Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03960

zbMATH Keywords

Fourier transformcharacteristic functionpositive definite function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic functions; other transforms (60E10) Positive definite functions in one variable harmonic analysis (42A82)

Abstract: Suppose that $f$ is the characteristic function of a probability measure on the real line $R$. In this paper, we deal with the following problem posed by N.G. Ushakov: Is it true that $f$ is never determined by its imaginary part $Imf$? In other words, is it true that for any characteristic function $f$ there exists a characteristic function $g$ such that $ImfequivImg$ but $fotequivg$? We study this question in the more general case of the characteristic function defined on an arbitrary locally compact abelian group. A characterization of what characteristic functions are uniquely determined by their imaginary parts are given. As a consequence of this characterization, we obtain that several frequently used characteristic functions on the classical locally compact abelian groups are uniquely determined by their imaginary parts.

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