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We consider a generalization of the classical Hermite polynomials by the addition of terms involving derivatives in the inner product. This type of generalization has been studied in the literature from the point of view of the algebraic…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2009-09-04 M. Alfaro , J. J. Moreno-Balcazar , A. Pena , M. L. Rezola

The purpose of this note is to study asymptotic zero distribution of multivariate random polynomials as their degrees grow. For a smooth weight function with super logarithmic growth at infinity, we consider random linear combinations of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Turgay Bayraktar

The aim of this paper is to construct generating functions for new families of special polynomials including the Appel polynomials, the Hermite-Kamp\`e de F\`eriet polynomials, the Milne-Thomson type polynomials, parametric kinds of Apostol…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-04-19 Neslihan Kilar , Yilmaz Simsek

Classical molecular dynamics simulation is performed mostly using the established velocity Verlet integrator or other symplectic propagation schemes. In this work, an alternative formulation of numerical propagators for classical molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Ivan Kondov

Using the path integral approach, we obtain the characteristic functions of the gyration radius distributions for Gaussian star and Gaussian rosette macromolecules. We derive the analytical expressions for cumulants of the both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-11 Yu. A. Budkov , A. L. Kolesnikov

In this paper, we consider the problem of parameter estimating for a family of exponential distributions. We develop the improved estimation method, which generalized the James--Stein approach for a wide class of distributions. The proposed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-08 S. B. Kologrivova , E. A. Pchelintsev

The present paper considers modified extension of the exponential distribution with three parameters. We study the main properties of this new distribution, with special emphasis on its median, mode and moments function and some…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2015-10-28 M. A. El-Damcese , Dina. A. Ramadan

Gravitational-wave astronomers often wish to characterize the expected parameter-estimation accuracy of future observations. The Fisher matrix provides a lower bound on the spread of the maximum-likelihood estimator across noise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-08 Michele Vallisneri

Chebyshev interpolation polynomials exhibit the exponential approximation property to analytic functions on a cube. Based on the Chebyshev interpolation polynomial approximation, we propose iterative polynomial approximation algorithms to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Cheng Cheng , Qiyu Sun , Cong Zheng

This article is concerned with an extension of univariate Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind to the multivariate setting, where one chases best approximants to specific monomials by polynomials of lower degree relative to the uniform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Mareike Dressler , Simon Foucart , Mioara Joldes , Etienne de Klerk , Jean Bernard Lasserre , Yuan Xu

The Hilbert-Chapman-Enskog expansion of the kinetic equations in mean flight times is believed to be asymptotic rather than convergent. It is therefore inadvisable to use lower order results to simplify the current approximation as is done…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Edward A. Spiegel , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

In this study, a numerical quadrature for the generalized inverse Gaussian distribution is derived from the Gauss-Hermite quadrature by exploiting its relationship with the normal distribution. The proposed quadrature is not Gaussian, but…

Computation · Statistics 2020-12-16 Jaehyuk Choi , Yeda Du , Qingshuo Song

Given a reciprocal/palindromic polynomial of even degree, we show that the gamma vector is essentially given by an inverted Chebyshev polynomial basis expansion. As an immediate consequence, we characterize real-rootedness of a linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Soohyun Park

Mixtures of Gaussian (or normal) distributions arise in a variety of application areas. Many heuristics have been proposed for the task of finding the component Gaussians given samples from the mixture, such as the EM algorithm, a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sanjeev Arora , Ravi Kannan

We propose an extension of quasi-Newton methods, and investigate the convergence and the robustness properties of the proposed update formulae for the approximate Hessian matrix. Fletcher has studied a variational problem which derives the…

Computation · Statistics 2010-10-15 Takafumi Kanamori , Atsumi Ohara

This paper studies new Lancaster characterizations of bivariate multivariate Poisson, negative binomial and normal distributions which have diagonal expansions in multivariate orthogonal polynomials. The characterizations extend classical…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-21 Robert Griffiths

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

Popular deterministic approximations of posterior distributions from, e.g. the Laplace method, variational Bayes and expectation-propagation, generally rely on symmetric approximating families, often taken to be Gaussian. This choice…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-19 Francesco Pozza , Daniele Durante , Botond Szabo

Given n observations, we study the consistency of a batch of k new observations, in terms of their distribution function. We propose a non-parametric, non-likelihood test based on Edgeworth expansion of the distribution function. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-06-08 Mahendra Mariadassou , Avner Bar-Hen

Consider real symmetric, complex Hermitian Toeplitz and real symmetric Hankel band matrix models, where the bandwidth $b_{N}\ra \iy$ but $b_{N}/N \to b$, $b\in [0,1]$ as $N\to \infty$. We prove that the distributions of eigenvalues converge…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-02 Dang-Zheng Liu , Zheng-Dong Wang