Applications and Computation of Orthogonal Polynomials: Conference at the Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach, Germany March 22-28, 1998 / Edition 1

by Walter Gautschi, Gene H. Golub, Gerhard Opfer

Overview

This volume contains a collection of papers dealing with applications of orthogonal polynomials and methods for their computation, of interest to a wide audience of numerical analysts, engineers, and scientists. The applications address problems in applied mathematics as well as problems in engineering and the sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783764361372
Publisher:	Birkhäuser Basel
Publication date:	08/13/1999
Series:	International Series of Numerical Mathematics , #131
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	273
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

The sensitivity of least squares polynomial approximation.- Transpose-free look-ahead algorithms for Lanczos’ method.- Applications of anti-Gauss quadrature rules in linear algebra.- Stieltjes polynomials and the error of Gauss-Kronrod quadrature formulas.- Fast solution of confluent Vandermonde-like linear systems using polynomial arithmetic.- On discrete polynomial least-squares approximation in moving time windows.- Quadrature rules based on s-orthogonal polynomials for evaluating integrals with strong singularities.- Gegenbauer weight functions admitting L2 Duffin and Schaeffer type inequalities.- Questions related to Gaussian quadrature formulas and two-term recursions.- Construction and computation of a new set of orthogonal polynomials.- Fourier transforms of orthogonal polynomials of singular continuous spectral measures.- On a sequence of fast decreasing polynomial operators.- Müntz orthogonal polynomials and their numerical evaluation.- Positivity of Gauss-Kronrod formulae for a certain ultraspherical weight function.- A Christoffel-Darboux-type formula for Szegö polynomials and polynomial evaluation.- Applications of tensor-valued tri-variate Hermite polynomials and spherical harmonics in the kinetic theory of gases.- Indeterminate moment problems and a conjecture on the growth of the entire functions in the Nevanlinna parametrization.- Spectral methods based on nonclassical orthogonal polynomials.- Author index.