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Chebyshev Series Expansion of Inverse Polynomials

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2016-09-07 v4

Abstract

An inverse polynomial has a Chebyshev series expansion 1/\sum(j=0..k)b_j*T_j(x)=\sum'(n=0..oo) a_n*T_n(x) if the polynomial has no roots in [-1,1]. If the inverse polynomial is decomposed into partial fractions, the a_n are linear combinations of simple functions of the polynomial roots. If the first k of the coefficients a_n are known, the others become linear combinations of these with expansion coefficients derived recursively from the b_j's. On a closely related theme, finding a polynomial with minimum relative error towards a given f(x) is approximately equivalent to finding the b_j in f(x)/sum_(j=0..k)b_j*T_j(x)=1+sum_(n=k+1..oo) a_n*T_n(x), and may be handled with a Newton method providing the Chebyshev expansion of f(x) is known.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0403344,
  title  = {Chebyshev Series Expansion of Inverse Polynomials},
  author = {Richard J. Mathar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0403344},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

LaTeX2e, 24 pages, 1 PostScript figure. More references. Corrected typos in (1.1), (3.4), (4.2), (A.5), (E.8) and (E.11)

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