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We present a novel and unifying framework for constructing spectral approximations to fractional integral operators. These spectral approximations are based on transplanted Chebyshev polynomials, which are obtained by composing Chebyshev…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Xiaolin Liu , Kuan Xu

We study the problem of approximately recovering a probability distribution given noisy measurements of its Chebyshev polynomial moments. This problem arises broadly across algorithms, statistics, and machine learning. By leveraging a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Lucas Rosenblatt , Apoorv Vikram Singh

BV functions cannot be approximated well by piecewise constant functions, but this work will show that a good approximation is still possible with (countably) piecewise affine functions. In particular, this approximation is area-strictly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-23 Jan Kristensen , Filip Rindler

In this paper, we establish a new estimate (including lower and upper bounds) for an important quantity involved in the convergence analysis of smoothed aggregation algebraic multigrid methods. The new upper bound improves the existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Xuefeng Xu , Chen-Song Zhang

The sparse polynomial approximation of continuous functions has emerged as a prominent area of interest in function approximation theory in recent years. A key challenge within this domain is the accurate estimation of approximation errors.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Renzhong Feng , Bowen Zhang

We consider the problem of estimating the support size of a discrete distribution whose minimum non-zero mass is at least $ \frac{1}{k}$. Under the independent sampling model, we show that the sample complexity, i.e., the minimal sample…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Yihong Wu , Pengkun Yang

We study the approximation capabilities of two families of univariate polynomials that arise in applications of quantum signal processing. Although approximation only in the domain $[0,1]$ is physically desired, these polynomial families…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Rahul Sarkar , Theodore J. Yoder

In this paper we provide new quantum algorithms with polynomial speed-up for a range of problems for which no such results were known, or we improve previous algorithms. First, we consider the approximation of the frequency moments $F_k$ of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Yassine Hamoudi , Frédéric Magniez

We consider the integer Chebyshev problem, that of minimizing the supremum norm over polynomials with integer coefficients on the interval $[0,1]$. We implement algorithms from semi-infinite programming and a branch and bound algorithm to…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-29 Kevin G. Hare , Philip W. Hodges

The aim of this paper is to investigate the quality of approximation of almost time and almost band-limited functions by its expansion in three classical orthogonal polynomials bases: the Hermite, Legendre and Chebyshev bases. As a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-05-03 Philippe Jaming , Abderrazek Karoui , Susanna Spektor

A Chebyshev expansion is a series in the basis of Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind. When such a series solves a linear differential equation, its coefficients satisfy a linear recurrence equation. We interpret this equation as the…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Alexandre Benoit , Bruno Salvy

We prove lower bounds on the error incurred when approximating any oscillating function using piecewise polynomial spaces. The estimates are explicit in the polynomial degree and have optimal dependence on the meshwidth and frequency when…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Jeffrey Galkowski

One of the purposes in this paper is to provide a better understanding of the alternance property which occurs in Chebyshev polynomial approximation and piecewise polynomial approximation problems. In the first part of this paper, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Jean-Pierre Crouzeix , Nadezda Sukhorukova , Julien Ugon

We employ the generalized Remez algorithm, initially suggested by P. T. P. Tang, to perform an experimental study of Chebyshev polynomials in the complex plane. Our focus lies particularly on the examination of their norms and zeros. What…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Lennart Aljoscha Hübner , Olof Rubin

We propose a general method for optimization with semi-infinite constraints that involve a linear combination of functions, focusing on the case of the exponential function. Each function is lower and upper bounded on sub-intervals by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-13 Bogdan Dumitrescu , Bogdan C. Sicleru , Florin Avram

We study the problem of approximating an unknown function $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ by a degree-$d$ polynomial using as few function evaluations as possible, where error is measured with respect to a probability distribution $\mu$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Chris Camaño , Raphael A. Meyer , Kevin Shu

The motivation of this work stems from the numerical approximation of bounded functions by polynomials satisfying the same bounds. The present contribution makes use of the recent algebraic characterization found in [B. Despr\'es, Numer.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Martin Campos Pinto , Frédérique Charles , Bruno Després , Maxime Herda

When solving differential equations by a spectral method, it is often convenient to shift from Chebyshev polynomials $T_{n}(x)$ with coefficients $a_{n}$ to modified basis functions that incorporate the boundary conditions. For homogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Xiaolong Zhang , John P. Boyd

For a function that is analytic on and around an interval, Chebyshev polynomial interpolation provides spectral convergence. However, if the function has a singularity close to the interval, the rate of convergence is near one. In these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Kevin W. Aiton , Tobin A. Driscoll

Rational best approximations (in a Chebyshev sense) to real functions are characterized by an equioscillating approximation error. Similar results do not hold true for rational best approximations to complex functions in general. In the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Tobias Jawecki , Pranav Singh