Carleman's condition

In mathematics, particularly, in analysis, Carleman's condition gives a sufficient condition for the determinacy of the moment problem. That is, if a measure $\mu$ satisfies Carleman's condition, there is no other measure $\nu$ having the same moments as $\mu .$ The condition was discovered by Torsten Carleman in 1922.

Hamburger moment problem

For the Hamburger moment problem (the moment problem on the whole real line), the theorem states the following:

Let $\mu$ be a measure on $\mathbb{ℝ}$ such that all the moments $$m_n=\underset{-\mathrm{\infty }}{\overset{+\mathrm{\infty }}{\int }}{x}^{n}d\mu (x),n=0,1,2,\cdots$$ are finite. If $$\sum _{n=1}^{\mathrm{\infty }}{m}_{2n}^{-\frac{1}{2n}}=+\mathrm{\infty },$$ then the moment problem for $(m_n)$ is determinate; that is, $\mu$ is the only measure on $\mathbb{ℝ}$ with $(m_n)$ as its sequence of moments.

Stieltjes moment problem

For the Stieltjes moment problem, the sufficient condition for determinacy is $$\sum _{n=1}^{\mathrm{\infty }}{m}_n^{-\frac{1}{2n}}=+\mathrm{\infty }.$$

References

• Akhiezer, N. I. (1965). The Classical Moment Problem and Some Related Questions in Analysis. Oliver & Boyd. 
• Chapter 3.3, Durrett, Richard. Probability: Theory and Examples. 5th ed. Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics 49. Cambridge ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019.