Seminars and Colloquia Schedule

Aluthge iteration of an operator

Series
Analysis Seminar
Time
Monday, April 27, 2009 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 255
Speaker
Tin Yau Tam – Department of Mathematics, Auburn University
Let A be a Hilbert space operator. If A = UP is the polar decomposition of A, and 0 < \lambda < 1, the \lambda-Aluthge transform of A is defined to be the operator \Delta_\lambda = P^\lambda UP^{1-\lambda}. We will discuss the recent progress on the convergence of the iteration. Infinite and finite dimensional cases will be discussed.

Optimal Query Complexity Bounds for Finding Graphs

Series
ACO Seminar
Time
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 11:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 255
Speaker
Jeong Han Kim – Yonsei University and NIMS, South Korea
We consider the problem of finding an unknown graph by using two types of queries with an additive property. Given a graph, an additive query asks the number of edges in a set of vertices while a cross-additive query asks the number of edges crossing between two disjoint sets of vertices. The queries ask sum of weights for the weighted graphs. These types of queries were partially motivated in DNA shotgun sequencing and linkage discovery problem of artificial intelligence. For a given unknown weighted graph G with n vertices, m edges, and a certain mild condition on weights, we prove that there exists a non-adaptive algorithm to find the edges of G using O\left(\frac{m\log n }{\log m}\right) queries of both types provided that m \geq n^{\epsilon} for any constant \epsilon> 0. For a graph, it is shown that the same bound holds for all range of m. This settles a conjecture of Grebinski for finding an unweighted graph using additive queries. We also consider the problem of finding the Fourier coefficients of a certain class of pseudo-Boolean functions. A similar coin weighing problem is also considered. (This is joint work with S. Choi)

Laguerre-Sobolev type orthogonal polynomials. Algebraic and analytic properties

Series
Analysis Seminar
Time
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 255
Speaker
Francisco Marcellan – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

In this contribution we study the asymptotic behaviour of polynomials orthogonal with respect to a Sobolev-Type inner product
\langle p, q\rangle_S = \int^\infty_0 p(x)q(x)x^\alpha e^{-x} dx + IP(0)^t AQ(0), \alpha > -1,
where p and q are polynomials with real coefficients,
A = \pmatrix{M_0 & \lambda\\ \lambda & M_1}, IP(0) = \pmatrix{p(0)\\ p'(0)}, Q(0) = \pmatrix{q(0)\\ q'(0)},
and A is a positive semidefinite matrix.

First, we analyze some algebraic properties of these polynomials. More precisely, the connection relations between the polynomials orthogonal with respect to the above inner product and the standard Laguerre polynomials are deduced. On the other hand, the symmetry of the multiplication operator by x^2 yields a five term recurrence relation that such polynomials satisfy.

Second, we focus the attention on their outer relative asymptotics with respect to the standard Laguerre polynomials as well as on an analog of the Mehler-Heine formula for the rescaled polynomials.

Third, we find the raising and lowering operators associated with these orthogonal polynomials. As a consequence, we deduce the holonomic equation that they satisfy. Finally, some open problems will be considered.