Characterization of the moment space corresponding to the Levermore basis

Abstract

A complete characterisation of the moment space corresponding to the Levermore basis is given here, through constraints on the moments. The necessary conditions are obtained thanks to classical tools, similar to Hankel determinants. In the mono-variate case, it is well-known that these conditions are sufficient. To generalize this result to multi-variate case, a non-classical constructive proof is given here reducing the problem to several mono-variate ones. However, it is also shown here on an example that the obtained multi-variate closure does not necessarily inherit of the good properties of the mono-variate closure.