We prove that the theorem on the incompleteness of polynomials in the space C 0 w established by de Branges in 1959 is not true for the space L p (ℝ, dμ) if the support of the measure μ is sufficiently dense.
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Translated from Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 291–301, March, 2009.
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Bakan, A.G. On the completeness of algebraic polynomials in the spaces L p (ℝ, dμ). Ukr Math J 61, 347–360 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-009-0221-1
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