A general fibre theorem for moment problems and some applications

Abstract

The fibre theorem \cite{schm2003} for the moment problem on closed semi-algebraic subsets of $\R^d$ is generalized to finitely generated real unital algebras. As an application two new theorems on the rational multidimensional moment problem are proved. Another application is a characterization of moment functionals on the polynomial algebra $\R[x_1,\dots,x_d]$ in terms of extensions. Finally, the fibre theorem and the extension theorem are used to reprove basic results on the complex moment problem due to Stochel and Szafraniec \cite{stochelsz} and Bisgaard \cite{bisgaard}.