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Main Authors: Montes-Rodríguez, A., Virtanen, J. A.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07324
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author Montes-Rodríguez, A.
Virtanen, J. A.
author_facet Montes-Rodríguez, A.
Virtanen, J. A.
contents We give very simple proofs of the classical results of Magnus and Hill on the spectral properties of the Hilbert matrix $$ H = \left ( {1 \over i+j+ 1 } \right )_{i,j\geq 0} $$ which defines a bounded linear operator on the sequence space $\ell^2$. In particular, we use the Mehler-Fock transform to find the spectrum and the latent eigenfunctions of the Hilbert matrix, that is, we show that the spectrum of $H$ is $[0,π]$ with no eigenvalues (Magnus' result) and describe all complex sequences $x$ such that $Hx=μx$ for some complex number $μ$ (Hill's result).
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spellingShingle The Hilbert matrix done right
Montes-Rodríguez, A.
Virtanen, J. A.
Functional Analysis
Complex Variables
We give very simple proofs of the classical results of Magnus and Hill on the spectral properties of the Hilbert matrix $$ H = \left ( {1 \over i+j+ 1 } \right )_{i,j\geq 0} $$ which defines a bounded linear operator on the sequence space $\ell^2$. In particular, we use the Mehler-Fock transform to find the spectrum and the latent eigenfunctions of the Hilbert matrix, that is, we show that the spectrum of $H$ is $[0,π]$ with no eigenvalues (Magnus' result) and describe all complex sequences $x$ such that $Hx=μx$ for some complex number $μ$ (Hill's result).
title The Hilbert matrix done right
topic Functional Analysis
Complex Variables
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07324