A Strong Szego Theorem for Jacobi Matrices

Abstract

We use a classical result of Gollinski and Ibragimov to prove an analog of the strong Szego theorem for Jacobi matrices on $l^2(\N)$. In particular, we consider the class of Jacobi matrices with conditionally summable parameter sequences and find necessary and sufficient conditions on the spectral measure such that $\sum_{k=n}^\infty b_k$ and $\sum_{k=n}^\infty (a_k^2 - 1)$ lie in $l^2_1$, the linearly-weighted $l^2$ space.