Total Positivity and Its Applications

Preface. I. Spline Functions. Total Positivity of the Spline Kernel and its Applications; B. Bojanov. Total Positivity Properties of LB-Splines; T. Lyche, L.L. Schumaker. Total Positivity and Splines; K. Mørken. Totally Positive Systems and Interpolation by Subspaces of Generalized Splines; M. Sommer. H. Strauss. II. Matrix Theory. Preservation of Total Nonnegativity under the Hadamard Product and Related Topics; J. Garloff, D.G. Wagner. Vertex Implications for Totally Nonnegative under the Hadamard Product and Related Topics; J. Garloff. On Factorizations of Totally Positive Matrices; J. Garloff. On Factorizations of Totally Positive Matrices; M. Gasca, J.M. Peña. III. Geometric Modeling. Total Positivity and Optimal Bases; J.M. Carnicer, J.M. Peña. Total Positivity and the Shape of Curves; T.N.T. Goodman. Tchebycheff Curves; M.L. Mazure, H. Pottmann. IV. Probability and Mathematical Biology. Analytical and Probabilistic Methods for Totally Positive Matrices; G.S. Goodman. Some Inequalities of Total Positivity in Pure and Applied Mathematics; S. Karlin, Z. Ziegler. New Directions and Problems of Multivariate Total Positivity Motivated by Genetic Recombination Probabilities; S. Karlin. V. Approximation Theory. Tchebycheff Spaces and Total Positivity; J.M. Carnicer, J.M. Peña. Cebysev and Weak Cebysev Systems; R.A. Zalik. VI. Complex Analysis. Zero Sets of Entire Fourier Transforms of Multiply Positive Density Functions; O.M. Katkova. VII. Statistics. Total Nonnegativity of Moment Matrices and its Application to E- Optimal Designs in Polynomial Regression; B. Heiligers. Analysis of Regression Dependence in 2 xn Bivariate Distributions and Some Applications in Contingency Tables; S. Kasala, M.B. Rao. VIII. Real Analysis. Total Positivity and Nonlinear Analysis; R.-Q. Jia. Solutions of Certain Functional Equations; S. Karlin. Alternance and Snakes in the Nonlinear Finite Moment Problem; K. Tatalian. IX. Combinatorics. The Applications of Total Positivity to Combinatorics, and Conversely; F. Brenti. X. Integral Equations. Spectral Properties of Totally Positive Kernels and Matrices; A. Pinkus. Index.