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Starting from the equation obeyed by the derivative, we construct several expansions of the solutions of the general Heun equation in terms of the Appell generalized hypergeometric functions of two variables of the fist kind. Several cases…
We study extremal properties of the function $$ F(x) := \min\{k\|x\|^{1-1/k}\colon k\ge 1\},\ x\in[0,1], $$ where $\|x\|=\min\{x,1-x\}$. In particular, we show that $F$ is the pointwise largest function of the class of all real-valued…
We investigate the classes of functions whose minimization diagrams can be approximated efficiently in \Re^d. We present a general framework and a data-structure that can be used to approximate the minimization diagram of such functions.…
Hypergeometric functions provide a useful representation of Feynman diagrams occuring in precision phenomenology. In dimension regularization, the epsilon-expansion of these functions about d=4 is required. We discuss the current status of…
Consider a non-linear operator equation $x - K(x) = f$, where $f$ is a given function and $K$ is a Urysohn integral operator with Green's function type kernel defined on $L^\infty [0, 1]$. We apply approximation methods based on…
Makespan minimization on unrelated machines is a classic problem in approximation algorithms. No polynomial time $(2-\delta)$-approximation algorithm is known for the problem for constant $\delta> 0$. This is true even for certain special…
This paper deals with approximation of smooth convex functions $f$ on an interval by convex algebraic polynomials which interpolate $f$ at the endpoints of this interval. We call such estimates "interpolatory". One important corollary of…
We establish sharp estimates for the discrete optimal constant of the fractional Sobolev inequality in dimension $N\geq 1$, with fractional exponent $s\in (0,\min\{1,N/2\})$. The convergence rates that we establish take place for the…
We present a method able to recover location and residue of poles of functions meromorphic in a half--plane from samples of the function on the real positive semi-axis. The function is assumed to satisfy appropriate asymptotic conditions…
In this note we show that conforming Galerkin approximations for p-harmonic functions tend to infinity-harmonic functions in the limit p \to \infty and h \to 0, where h denotes the Galerkin discretisation parameter.
We study a new generalized version of the point pair function defined with a constant $\alpha>0$. We prove that this function is a quasi-metric for all values of $\alpha>0$, and compare it to several hyperbolic-type metrics, such as the…
The purpose of this note is to compare various approximation methods as applied to the inverse of the Bessel function of the first kind, in a given domain of the complex plane.
Approximating a manifold-valued function from samples of input-output pairs consists of modeling the relationship between an input from a vector space and an output on a Riemannian manifold. We propose a function approximation method that…
This paper is concerned with the analysis of the kernel-based algorithm for gain function approximation in the feedback particle filter. The exact gain function is the solution of a Poisson equation involving a probability-weighted…
We investigate the problem of approximating the matrix function $f(A)$ by $r(A)$, with $f$ a Markov function, $r$ a rational interpolant of $f$, and $A$ a symmetric Toeplitz matrix. In a first step, we obtain a new upper bound for the…
It is well known that approximation of functions on $[0,1]$ whose periodic extension is not continuous fail to converge uniformly due to rapid Gibbs oscillations near the boundary. Among several approaches that have been proposed toward the…
We study an approximation method for the one-dimensional nonlinear filtering problem, with discrete time and continuous time observation. We first present the method applied to the Fokker-Planck equation. The convergence of the…
The solution of the governing equation representing the drawdown in a horizontal confined aquifer, where groundwater flow is unsteady, is provided in terms of the exponential integral, which is famously known as the Well function. For the…
In this paper a spline based integral approximation is utilized to propose a sequence of approximations to the error function that converge at a significantly faster manner than the default Taylor series. The approximations can be improved…
We find asymptotic equalities for exact upper bounds of approximations by Fourier sums in uniform metric on classes of $2\pi$-periodic functions, representable in the form of convolutions of functions $\varphi$, which belong to unit balls…