Zeros of optimal polynomial approximants and spectra of Jacobi matrices

Series
Analysis Seminar
Time
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 - 1:55pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Catherine Beneteau – University of South Florida
Organizer
Shahaf Nitzan
In this talk, I will discuss some polynomials that are best approximants (in some sense!) to reciprocals of functions in some analytic function spaces of the unit disk. I will examine the extremal problem of finding a zero of minimal modulus, and will show how that extremal problem is related to the spectrum of a certain Jacobi matrix and real orthogonal polynomials on the real line.