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Orthogonal polynomials of degree $n$ with respect to the weight function $W_\mu(x) = (1-\|x\|^2)^\mu$ on the unit ball in $\RR^d$ are known to satisfy the partial differential equation $$ [ \Delta - \la x, \nabla \ra^2 - (2 \mu +d) \la x,…
We derive a three-term recurrence relation for computing the polynomial of best approximation in the uniform norm to $x^{-1}$ on a finite interval with positive endpoints. As application, we consider two-level methods for scalar elliptic…
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