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Solutions of differential equations in Freud-weighted Sobolev spaces

Numerical Analysis 2026-02-11 v1 Numerical Analysis Analysis of PDEs Classical Analysis and ODEs Functional Analysis

Abstract

We lay some mathematically rigorous foundations for the resolution of differential equations with respect to semi-classical bases and topologies, namely Freud-Sobolev polynomials and spaces. In this quest, we uncover an elegant theory melding various topics in Numerical and Functional Analysis: Poincar\'e inequalities, Sobolev orthogonal polynomials, Painlev\'e equations and more. Brought together, these ingredients allow us to quantify the compactness of Sobolev embeddings on Freud-weighted spaces and finally resolve some differential equations in this topology. As an application, we rigorously and tightly enclose solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with sextic potential.

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@article{arxiv.2501.13672,
  title  = {Solutions of differential equations in Freud-weighted Sobolev spaces},
  author = {Maxime Breden and Hugo Chu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.13672},
  year   = {2026}
}