Speaker:
Barry Simon
Institution:
Caltech
Time:
Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 2:00pm
Location:
NS 1201
After defining the spectral theory of orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle (OPUC) and real line (OPRL), I'll describe Verblunsky's version of Szego's theorem as a sum rule for OPUC and the Killip--Simon sum rule for OPRL and their spectral consequences. Next I'll explain the original proof of Killip--Simon using representation theorems for meromorphic Herglotz functions. Finally I'll focus on recent work of Gambo, Nagel and Rouault who obtain the sum rules using large deviations for random matrices.