On extremal problems of Delsarte type for positive definite functions on LCA groups

Abstract

A unifying framework for some extremal problems on locally compact Abelian groups is considered, special cases of which include the Delsarte and Turán extremal problems. A slight variation of the extremal problem is introduced and the different formulations are studied for equivalence. Extending previous work, a general result on existence of extremal functions for the new variant is proved under a certain general topological condition.