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On symmetrizing the ultraspherical spectral method for self-adjoint problems

Numerical Analysis 2020-04-22 v1

Abstract

A mechanism is described to symmetrize the ultraspherical spectral method for self-adjoint problems. The resulting discretizations are symmetric and banded. An algorithm is presented for an adaptive spectral decomposition of self-adjoint operators. Several applications are explored to demonstrate the properties of the symmetrizer and the adaptive spectral decomposition.

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@article{arxiv.1903.08538,
  title  = {On symmetrizing the ultraspherical spectral method for self-adjoint problems},
  author = {Jared Lee Aurentz and Richard Mikael Slevinsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.08538},
  year   = {2020}
}
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