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We study best approximation to a given function, in the least square sense on a subset of the unit circle, by polynomials of given degree which are pointwise bounded on the complementary subset. We show that the solution to this problem, as…
Low-degree polynomials have emerged as a powerful paradigm for providing evidence of statistical-computational gaps across a variety of high-dimensional statistical models [Wein25]. For detection problems -- where the goal is to test a…
We give a general method for proving quantum lower bounds for problems with small range. Namely, we show that, for any symmetric problem defined on functions $f:\{1, ..., N\}\to\{1, ..., M\}$, its polynomial degree is the same for all…
A practical version of the polynomial canonical formalism is developed for normal mesoscopic systems consisting of N independent electrons. Drastic simplification of calculations is attained by means of proper ordering excited states of the…
In this paper we study the density of polynomials in some $L^2(M)$ spaces. Two choices of the measure $M$ and polynomials are considered: 1) a $(N\times N)$ matrix non-negative Borel measure on $\mathbb{R}$ and vector-valued polynomials…
Motivated by recent work on optimal approximation by polynomials in the unit disk, we consider the following noncommutative approximation problem: for a polynomial $f$ in $d$ freely noncommuting arguments, find a free polynomial $p_n$, of…
In this note we provide an algorithm for computing the fractional integrals of orthogonal polynomials, which is more stable than that using the expression of the polynomials w.r.t. the canonical basis. This algorithm is aimed at solving…
We consider the minimum distance projection in the $L_2$-norm from an arbitrary point in an $n$-dimensional, Euclidian space onto the canonical simplex. It is shown that this problem reduces to a univariate problem that can be solved by a…
The purpose of this work is to present the derivation and an estimate of the degrees of the best approximation based on convex, coconvex and unconstrained polynomials, and discuss some applications. We simplify the term convex and coconvex…
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…
Trigonometric polynomials are widely used for the approximation of a smooth function $f$ from a set of nonuniformly spaced samples $\{f(x_j)\}_{j=0}^{N-1}$. If the samples are perturbed by noise, controlling the smoothness of the…
Let K be a field and denote by K[t], the polynomial ring with coefficients in K. Set A = K[f1,. .. , fs], with f1,. .. , fs $\in$ K[t]. We give a procedure to calculate the monoid of degrees of the K algebra M = F1A + $\times$ $\times$…
An algorithm is presented for the efficient and accurate computation of the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of a general square matrix. The algorithm is especially suited for the evaluation of canonical traces in determinant…
We study the best uniform approximation by polynomials of fixed degree of the function sgn(x) on the union of two intervals symmetric with respect to the origin. We obtain precise asymptotics, with explicit constants, for the error of the…
This paper presents a new class of 8th order canonical polynomials in n-dimensional real space. Based on the sequential canonical dual transformation, all extrema are obtained. The method can be used to solve the associated 7th order…
A theorem is proved concerning approximation of analytic functions by multivariate polynomials in the $s$-dimensional hypercube. The geometric convergence rate is determined not by the usual notion of degree of a multivariate polynomial,…
In this paper, exact rate of decrease of best approximations of non-integer numbers by polynomials with integer coefficients of the growing exponentials is found on a disk in complex plane, on a cube in $\mathbb{R}^d$, and on a ball in…
In this article, we show that the algebraic degree in semidefinite programming can be expressed in terms of the coefficient of a certain monomial in a doubly symmetric polynomial. This characterization of the algebraic degree allows us to…
This paper considers the approximation of a monomial $x^n$ over the interval $[-1,1]$ by a lower-degree polynomial. This polynomial approximation can be easily computed analytically and is obtained by truncating the analytical Chebyshev…
There is presented an algorithm for computing the topological degree for a large class of polynomial mappings. As an application there is given an effective algebraic formula for the intersection number of a polynomial immersion M --> R^2m,…