Orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle: Verblunsky coefficients with some restrictions imposed on a pair of related real sequences

Abstract

It was shown recently that associated with a pair of real sequences $\{\{c_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}, \{d_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}\}$, with $\{d_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ a positive chain sequence, there exists a unique nontrivial probability measure $\mu$ on the unit circle. The Verblunsky coefficients $\{\alpha_{n}\}_{n=0}^{\infty}$ associated with the orthogonal polynomials with respect to $\mu$ are given by the relation $$ \alpha_{n-1}=\overline{\tau}_{n-1}\left[\frac{1-2m_{n}-ic_{n}}{1-ic_{n}}\right], \quad n \geq 1, $$ where $\tau_0 = 1$, $\tau_{n}=\prod_{k=1}^{n}(1-ic_{k})/(1+ic_{k})$, $n \geq 1$ and $\{m_{n}\}_{n=0}^{\infty}$ is the minimal parameter sequence of $\{d_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$. In this manuscript we consider this relation and its consequences by imposing some restrictions of sign and periodicity on the sequences $\{c_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ and $\{m_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$. When the sequence $ \{c_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ is of alternating sign, we use information about the zeros of associated para-orthogonal polynomials to show that there is a gap in the support of the measure in the neighbourhood of $z= -1$. Furthermore, we show that it is possible to ge\-nerate periodic Verblunsky coefficients by choosing periodic sequences $\{c_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ and $\{m_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ with the additional restriction $c_{2n}=-c_{2n-1}, \, n\geq 1.$ We also give some results on periodic Verblunsky coefficients from the point of view of positive chain sequences. An example is provided to illustrate the results obtained.