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We prove by elementary means that, if the Bergman orthogonal polynomials of a bounded simply-connected planar domain, with sufficiently regular boundary, satisfy a finite-term relation, then the domain is algebraic and characterized by the fact that Dirichlet’s problem with boundary polynomial data has a polynomial solution. This, and an additional compactness assumption, is known to imply that the domain is an ellipse. In particular, we show that if the Bergman orthogonal polynomials satisfy a three-term relation then the domain is an ellipse. This completes an inquiry started forty years ago by Peter Duren.
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Communicated by Daniel Alpay.
To Peter Duren on the occasion of his seventieth birthday
The first author was partially supported by the National Science Foundation Grant DMS- 0350911.
Received: October 15, 2006. Revised: January 22, 2007.
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Putinar, M., Stylianopoulos, N.S. Finite-Term Relations for Planar Orthogonal Polynomials. Complex anal.oper. theory 1, 447–456 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11785-007-0013-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11785-007-0013-2