Abstract:
We consider the mutual relations between the concepts of sets of uniqueness for
analytic functions, the loss of entropy in nondetermined stationary linear filters,
Szegö's theorem and the familiar condition of summability of the logarithm.
The goal of the paper is to give the physical meaning of these mutual relations.
Here we take the concept of linear stationary filter and loss of entropy in it as
basic. In the first part of the paper the account is given for the case of discrete
time, and in the second part we give the method of passing to continuous
time. To this end we introduce the concept of stationary sampling system. This
is a sequence of functions from $L^2(\mathbf R)$, which transforms any stationary Gaussian
process $(\mathfrak X_t)_{t\in\mathbf R}$ with continuous correlation function into a stationary Gaussian
process with discrete time $Y_n\overset{\operatorname{def}}=\int_{\mathbf R}\varphi_n\mathfrak X_tdt$, $n\in\mathbf Z$. Such systems can be described
in terms of the Fourier transform. Laguerre systems $\varphi_n(x)=\sqrt{\dfrac{\operatorname{Im}z}{\pi}}\cdot\dfrac{1}{x-z}\biggl(\dfrac{x-z}{x-z}\biggr)^n$
where $z$ is a fixed point in the upper half-plane, play a special role among all
sampling systems. If $z=i$, then $\varphi_n$ is a classical Laguerre function on the
line up to a multiplicative constant. Laguerre sampling systems allow one to
give the entropy meaning to the values of the harmonic extension to the upper
half-plane of the logarithm of the spectral density of the process $(\mathfrak X_t)_{t\in\mathbf R}$.