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Publications and source records attributed to L. A. Sakhnovich.
In this paper we use the Bezoutiant method to describe the conditions under which two entire functions have not common roots. We apply the general results to concrete examples. In particular we consider the Bessel functions.
We consider the set of the power non-negative polynomials of several variables and its subset that consists of polynomials which can be represented as a sum of squares. It is shown in the classic work by D.Hilbert that it is a proper subset. Both sets are convex. In our paper we have made an attempt to work out a general approach to the investigation of the extremal elements of these convex sets. We also consider the class of non-negative rational functions. The article is based on the following methods: 1.We investigate non-negative trigonometrical polynomials and then with the help of the Calderon transformation we proceed to the power polynomials. 2.The way of constructing support hyperplanes to the convex sets is given in the paper.
We prove a generalization of the well-known theorems by Borg and Hochstadt for periodic self-adjoint Schrödinger operators without a spectral gap, respectively, one gap in their spectrum, in the matrix-valued context. Our extension of the theorems of Borg and Hochstadt replaces the periodicity condition of the potential by the more general property of being reflectionless (the resulting potentials then automatically turn out to be periodic and we recover Després' matrix version of Borg's result). In addition, we assume the spectra to have uniform maximum multiplicity (a condition automatically fulfilled in the scalar context considered by Borg and Hochstadt). Moreover, the connection with the stationary matrix KdV hierarchy is established. The methods employed in this paper rely on matrix-valued Herglotz functions, Weyl--Titchmarsh theory, pencils of matrices, and basic inverse spectral theory for matrix-valued Schrödinger operators.