Henry Helson

Henry Helson

Henry Berge Helson (June 2, 1927 – January 10, 2010) was an American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who worked on analysis.

Helson sets

If G is an infinite, nondiscrete, locally compact group, then a Helson set is defined to be a compact set P in G such that every continuous function on P can be extended to a function in the Fourier algebra A(G) in the group G.[1] Helson was the first to prove that there exist perfect Helson sets for the case of the group consisting of the real line.[2][3]

Selected works

References

  1. Dunkl, Charles F.; Ramirez, Donald E. (1972). "Helson sets in compact and locally compact groups" (PDF). Michigan Math. J. 19 (1): 65–69. doi:10.1307/mmj/1029000799.
  2. Rudin, Walter (1960). "Fourier-Stieltjes transforms of measures on independent sets" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 66 (3): 199–202. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1960-10433-8.
  3. Helson, Henry (1954). "Fourier transforms on perfect sets". Studia Math. 14: 209–213.
  4. Cooke, Roger (Oct 1996). "Book review of Harmonic Analysis, 2nd edn by Henry Helson". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 3 (4): 505–508.