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Different practical problems, espesially, problems of hydrodynamics, elasticity theory, geophysics and aerodynamics can be reduced to finding of an optimal shape. The investigation of these problems is based on the study of depending domain…
In this paper we study the question of effective field assignment to measured or nonperturbatively calculated spectral functions. The straightforward procedure is to approximate it by a sum of independent Breit-Wigner resonances, and assign…
The subject of the present study is the Monte Carlo path-integral evaluation of the moments of spectral functions. Such moments can be computed by formal differentiation of certain estimating functionals that are infinitely-differentiable…
GMRES is a popular Krylov subspace method for solving linear systems of equations involving a general non-Hermitian coefficient matrix. The conventional bounds on GMRES convergence involve polynomial approximation problems in the complex…
This paper considers the problem of specifying a simple approximating density function for a given data set (x_1,...,x_n). Simplicity is measured by the number of modes but several different definitions of approximation are introduced. The…
A spectral parameter power series (SPPS) representation for solutions of Sturm-Liouville equations of the form $$(pu')'+qu=u\sum_{k=1}^{N}\lambda^{k}r_{k}$$ is obtained. It allows one to write a general solution of the equation as a power…
We start by presenting a generalization of a discrete wave equation that is particularly satisfied by the entries of the matrix coefficients of the refinement equation corresponding to the multiresolution analysis of Alpert. The entries are…
The contention of this paper is that a spectral method for time-dependent PDEs is basically no more than a choice of an orthonormal basis of the underlying Hilbert space. This choice is governed by a long list of considerations: stability,…
Expository notes about spectral sequences, filtered spectra, and synthetic spectra. We focus on the $\tau$-formalism as it arises in filtered spectra.
A spectral decomposition method is used to obtain solutions to a class of nonlinear differential equations. We extend this approach to the analysis of the fractional form of these equations and demonstrate the method by applying it to the…
This paper proposes a new approach to construct high quality space-filling sample designs. First, we propose a novel technique to quantify the space-filling property and optimally trade-off uniformity and randomness in sample designs in…
Several recently discovered properties of multiple families of special polynomials (some orthogonal and some not) that satisfy certain differential, difference or q-difference equations are reviewed. A general method of construction of…
First, we extend the results of approximate matrix multiplication from the Frobenius norm to the spectral norm. Second, We develop a class of fast approximate generalized linear regression algorithms with respect to the spectral norm.…
In this paper, we consider spectral-collocation method base on Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto point. We present a computational method for solving a class of fractional integral equation of the second kind. Then based on Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto…
A representation of solutions of the one-dimensional Dirac equation is obtained. The solutions are represented as Neumann series of Bessel functions. The representations are shown to be uniformly convergent with respect to the spectral…
We develop a spectral method for solving univariate singular integral equations over unions of intervals by utilizing Chebyshev and ultraspherical polynomials to reformulate the equations as almost-banded infinite-dimensional systems. This…
A fully diagonalized spectral method using generalized Laguerre functions is proposed and analyzed for solving elliptic equations on the half line. We first define the generalized Laguerre functions which are complete and mutually…
This work is devoted to the obtaining of a new numerical scheme based in quadrature formulas for the Lebesgue-Stieltjes integral for the approximation of Stieltjes ordinary differential equations. This novel method allows us to numerically…
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