Necessary and Sufficient Conditions in the Spectral Theory of Jacobi Matrices and Schrödinger Operators

We announce three results in the theory of Jacobi matrices and Schrödinger operators. First, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a measure to be the spectral measure of a Schrödinger operator −d^2/dx^2+V(x) on L^2 (0,∞) with V ∈ L2(0,∞) and the boundary condition u(0) = 0. Second, we give necessary and sufficient conditions on the Jacobi parameters for the associated orthogonal polynomials to have Szegő asymptotics. Finally, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions on a measure to be the spectral measure of a Jacobi matrix with exponential decay at a given rate