The complex moment problem and direct and inverse spectral problems for the block Jacobi type bounded normal matrices, Methods Funct

Abstract. We continue to generalize the connection between the classical power mo-ment problem and the spectral theory of selfadjoint Jacobi matrices. In this article we propose an analog of the Jacobi matrix related to the complex moment problem and to a system of polynomials orthogonal with respect to some probability measure on the complex plane. Such a matrix has a block three-diagonal structure and gives rise to a normal operator acting on a space of l2 type. Using this connection we prove existence of a one-to-one correspondence between probability measures defined on the complex plane and block three-diagonal Jacobi type normal matrices. For simplicity, we investigate in this article only bounded normal operators. From the point of view of the complex moment problem, this restriction means that the mea-sure in the moment representation (or the measure, connected with the orthonormal polynomials) has compact support. 1