Algebraic Versus Analytic Density of Polynomials

Abstract

We show that under very mild conditions on a measure $\mu$ on the real line, the span of $\{x^n\}_{n=j}^{\infty}$ is dense in $L^2(\mu)$ for any $j\in\mathbb{N}$. We also present a slightly weaker result with an interesting proof that uses Sobolev orthogonality.