Some Remarks on the Moment Problem and Its Relation to the Theory of Extrapolation of Spaces

It is well known that that the coincidence of integer moments ($n$th-power moments, where $n$ is an integer) of two nonnegative random variables does not imply the coincidence of their distributions. Moreover, we show that, given coinciding integer moments, the ratio of half-integer moments may tend to infinity arbitrarily fast. Also, in this paper, we give a new proof of uniqueness in the continuous moment problem and show that, in that problem, it is impossible to replace the condition of coincidence of all moments by a two-sided inequality between them, while preserving the inequality between the distributions. In conclusion, we study the relationship with the theory of extrapolation of spaces.