Discrete entropies of orthogonal polynomials
Classical Analysis and ODEs
2007-10-12 v1 Information Theory
Mathematical Physics
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Abstract
Let be the -th orthonormal polynomial on the real line, whose zeros are , . Then for each , with defines a discrete probability distribution. The Shannon entropy of the sequence is consequently defined as In the case of Chebyshev polynomials of the first and second kinds an explicit and closed formula for is obtained, revealing interesting connections with the number theory. Besides, several results of numerical computations exemplifying the behavior of for other families are also presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0710.2134,
title = {Discrete entropies of orthogonal polynomials},
author = {A. I. Aptekarev and J. S. Dehesa and A. Martinez-Finkelshtein and R. Yañez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.2134},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
26 pages, 6 figures