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Teaching in the academic year 2009-2010


Teaching in the academic year 2008-2009


Teaching in previous years can be found at the bottom of the page.

Recent publications and manuscripts

  • With Ryszard Szwarc, The smallest eigenvalue of Hankel matrices Manuscript pdf-version from ArXiv
  • With Christophe Vignat, On the density of the sum of two independent Student t-random vectors pdf-version from ArXiv
  • B{\o}rge Jessen, 19.6.1907--20.3.1993 Electronic journal for History of Probability and Statistics, Vol 5, no. 1 (2009) Access
  • With Antonio J. Durn, Fibonacci numbers, Euler's 2-periodic continued fractions and moment sequences Manuscript. pdf-version from ArXiv
  • With Christophe Vignat, On some results of Cufaro Petroni about Student t-processes J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41(2008) 265004 (10 PP) pdf-version from ArXiv access via DOI
  • With Antonio J. Durn, Iteration of the rational function z-1/z and a Hausdorff moment sequence Expo. Math. 26 (2008), 375-385. final pdf-version access via DOI
  • With Ryszard Szwarc, Bounds on Turn determinants J. Approx. Theory 161 (2009), 127-141. pdf-file of preprint version. access via DOI
  • With Jorge Mateu and Emilio Porcu, The Dagum family of isotropic correlation functions Preprint submitted to ArXiv. Bernoulli Journal 14 no. 4 (2008), 1134-1149. access via DOI
  • With Jrgen Ellegaard Andersen, Quantum Hilbert matrices and orthogonal polynomials J. Comput. Appl. Math. 233 (2009), 723-729. ArXiv. New updated version pdf.file. access via DOI
  • Ortogonale polynomier og Hilbertmatricen (In Danish) NORMAT 54 no. 3 (2006) 116-133. pdf-file. (Note that the page numbers in the pdf-file are not the final numbers as they appeared in the journal)
  • With Henrik L. Pedersen, Convexity of the median in the gamma distribution Ark. Mat. 46 (2008), 1-6. pdf-file.
  • Stieltjes-Pick-Bernstein-Schoenberg and their connection to complete monotonicity. In: Positive definite functions. From Schoenberg to Space-Time Challenges. Ed. J. Mateu and E. Porcu. Dept. of Mathematics, University Jaume I, Castellon, Spain, 2008. ISBN 978-84-612-8282-1. pdf-file.
  • Fibonacci numbers and orthogonal polynomials To appear in proceedings of an International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Its Applications, Assiut, Egypt, January 3-6, 2006. pdf-file . pdf-version submitted September 2006 to ArXiv.
  • With Antonio Duran, The fixed point for a transformation of Hausdorff moment sequences and iteration of a rational function Math. Scand. 103 (2008), 11-39. pdf-file .
  • With Henrik L. Pedersen and with an appendix by Walter Hayman Logarithmic order and type of indeterminate moment problems Proceedings of the International Conference : "Difference equations, special functions and orthogonal polynomials", Munich, July 25-30, 2005. World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore 2007 (ISBN-13 978-981-270-643-0; ISBN-10 981-270-643-7). Editors: S.Elaydi, J. Cushing, R. Lasser, V. Papageorgiou, A. Ruffing, W. Van Assche. pdf-file.
  • With Christophe Vignat, Linearization coefficients of Bessel polynomials Constr. Approx. Vol. 27 (2008),15-32. pdf-file. access via DOI
  • On powers of Stieltjes moment sequences,II J. Comput. Appl. Math. 199 (2007), 23-38. pdf-file. access via DOI
  • With Henrik L. Pedersen, The Chen-Rubin conjecture in a continuous setting Manuscript containing Maple programs pdf-file. Revised manuscript of August 24, 2006 has appeared in Methods and Applications of Analysis, Vol 13 (2006), 63-88. revised version (pdf).
  • Integral representation of some functions related to the Gamma function, Mediterr. j. math. 1 (2004), 433-439. Birkhuser pdf-file of preprint version.
  • On powers of Stieltjes moment sequences,I J. Theor. Prob. 18 (2005), 871-889. Preprint version pdf-file.
  • With Horst Alzer and Stamatis Koumandos, On a conjecture of Clark and Ismail J. Approx. Theory 134 (2005), 102-113. ps-file of preprint version.
  • With Antonio Duran, Some transformations of Hausdorff moment sequences and harmonic numbers Canad. J. Math. 57 (2005), 941-960. ps-file of Preprint version.
  • With Horst Alzer, Some Classes of Completely Monotonic Functions,II Ramanujan J. 11 (2006), 225-248. Journal version Preprint version: pdf-file.
  • On a generalized Gamma convolution related to the q-calculus In: Developments of Mathematics Vol. 13: "Theory and Applications of Special Functions. A volume dedicated to Mizan Rahman". Edited by Mourad E.H. Ismail and Erik Koelink. ISBN: 0-387-24231-7. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., Berlin. A preprint version of the paper is available: ps-file.
  • With Antonio Duran, Orthogonal polynomials and analytic functions associated to positive definite matrices J. Math. Anal. Appl. 315 (2006), 54-67 ps-file.
  • With Antonio J. Duran, A transformation from Hausdorff to Stieltjes moment sequences Ark. Mat. 42 (2004), 239-257. See:http://www.arkivformatematik.org/ preprint Version of July 2003. ps-file.
  • Correction to a paper by A. G. Pakes J. Austral. Math. Soc. 76 (2004), 67-73. See http://www.austms.org.au/Publ/Jamsa/ ps-file.
  • With Horst Alzer, Some Classes of Completely Monotonic Functions Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Math. Vol. 27 (2002), 445-460 pdf-file.
  • A Pick function related to an inequality for the entropy function . J. Inequalities Pure and Appl. Math. Vol. 2, Issue 2, Article 26, 2001. (http://jipam.vu.edu.au) Copyright University of Victoria print-version. monitor-version.
  • With H. L. Pedersen, Pick functions related to the Gamma function. Rocky Mountain Journal of Math. 32 no. 2, 507-525 (2002) pdf-file.
  • On infinitely divisible solutions to indeterminate moment problems. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop "Special Functions", Hong Kong, June 21-25, 1999. Ed. C. Dunkl, M. Ismail, R. Wong. World Scientific, Singapore 2000, pp. 31-41. ps-file. dvi-file.
  • With H. L. Pedersen, A completely monotone function related to the Gamma function. J. Comput. Appl. Math., Vol. 133 (2001), 219-230. ps-file. dvi-file. pdf-file.
  • With A. Ruffing, Generalized q-Hermite Polynomials. Commun. Math. Phys. 223,1 (2001), 29-46 paper.
  • With Y. Chen and M.E.H. Ismail, Small eigenvalues of large Hankel matrices: The indeterminate case. Math. Scand., Vol. 91 (2002), 67-81 ps-file.
  • From discrete to absolutely continuous solutions of indeterminate moment problems. Arab. J. Math. Sc. 4, no.2 (1998), 1-18. ps-file. dvi-file.
  • On some indeterminate moment problems for measures on a geometric progression. J. Comput. Appl. Math.99 (1998), 67-75. J. Comput. Appl. Math.. ps-file. dvi-file.
  • With A.J. Duran, Orthogonal polynomials, $L^2$-spaces and entire functions , Math. Scand.79 (1996), 209-223. ps-file. dvi-file.
  • With A.J. Duran, Measures with finite index of determinacy or a mathematical model for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 523-530. ps-file. dvi-file.
  • With M.E.H. Ismail, Q-Hermite polynomials and classical orthogonal polynomials, Can. J. Math. 48 (1996), 43-63. ps-file. dvi-file.
  • Recent results about moment problems, In: Probability Measures on Groups and Related Structures, XI Proceedings Oberwolfach 1994. Ed. H. Heyer, World Scientific, Singapore 1995. ps-file. dvi-file.
  • Moment problems and polynomial approximation, Ann. Fac. Sci. Toulouse Math\'ematiques, 1996, 9-32. Num\'ero sp\'ecial Stieltjes. ps-file. dvi-file.

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    Christian Berg
    Professor, dr. phil.
    
    
    Institute for Mathematical Sciences
    University of Copenhagen
    DK-2100 Copenhagen 
    
    Phone:	(+45) 3532 0728
    Fax:	(+45) 3532 0704
    email:	berg@math.ku.dk
    
    

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    The moment problem and orthogonal polynomials. This is a graduate course from November 14 to January 27, 2006 (Block 2A) Homepage

    Teaching in the spring term 2006


    Teaching in the academic year 2006-2007


    Teaching in the academic year 2007-2008