SIMIS Summer Seminar: Totally Positive Operators and Unitary Representations of SL(2) over semifields
Speaker: Yongchang Zhu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Abstract: The infinite-dimensional analog of totally positive matrices is known as variation diminishing operators on function spaces. In the 1950s, I. Schoenberg classified variation diminishing operators of convolution type using Polya frequency functions. In the 1960s, I. Hirshman generalized this classification for Hankel convolution operators. …