Conjecture on signed measures with prescribed vanishing moments

Let a,bRa,b\in \mathbb{R} with 0<a<b0<a<b. Let (nk)kN(n_k)_{k \in \mathbb{N}} be a strictly increasing sequence of positive integers such that

k=01nk<.\sum_{k=0}^\infty \frac{1}{n_k} < \infty.

A non-trivial signed measure with prescribed vanishing moments is a signed measure supported in [a,b][a,b], absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure, and having a continuous density. Vanishing-moments conjecture. There exists such a measure for which all nkn_kth moments vanish. The conjecture would strengthen the preceding result, which guarantees infinitely many vanishing moments without controlling their particular exponents; the Müntz–Szász theorem motivates the reciprocal-summability condition.

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Vincent Bürgin, Jeremias Epperlein and Fabian Wirth, “Remarks on the tail order on moment sequences”, arXiv:2104.10572 (2022).

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