Computation of the Entropy of Polynomials Orthogonal on an Interval

DOI10.1137/S1064827503426711MaRDI QIDQ4652335zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors V. S. Buyarov, Jesús S. Dehesa, Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein, Joaquin F. Sánchez Lara

Publication date 25 February 2005

Published in SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0310238, http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1639

zbMATH Keywords

entropic uncertainty relationentropyGegenbauer polynomialsJacobi matrixorthogonal polynomialsspherical harmonicsthree-term recurrence relation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Spherical harmonics (33C55) Applications of hypergeometric functions (33C90) Numerical approximation and evaluation of special functions (33F05) Orthogonal functions and polynomials, general theory of nontrigonometric harmonic analysis (42C05) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Numerical integration (65D30) General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99)

Abstract: We give an effective method to compute the entropy for polynomials orthogonal on a segment of the real axis that uses as input data only the coefficients of the recurrence relation satisfied by these polynomials. This algorithm is based on a series expression for the mutual energy of two probability measures naturally connected with the polynomials. The particular case of Gegenbauer polynomials is analyzed in detail. These results are applied also to the computation of the entropy of spherical harmonics, important for the study of the entropic uncertainty relations as well as the spatial complexity of physical systems in central potentials.

Review text

The paper presents a new approach to the computation of the entropic integrals \[ E_n(\mu)=-\int p_n^2(x)\ln (p_n^2(x))\,d\mu(x), \] where \(p_n\) are the orthonormal polynomials associated to the distribution \(\mu\). The use of quadrature formulas is not convenient to evaluate \(E_n(\mu)\) because of all the zeros of \(p_n\) are integrable singularities which belong to the support of \(\mu\). The algorithms, whose input data only consists of the coefficients of the corresponding recurrence relation, are based in Theorem 2.1. This result establishes that the mutual energy of the two sequences of probability measures on \([-1,1]\), the normalized zero counting measure \(\lambda_n\), and \(d\nu_n(x)=p_n^2(x)d\mu(x)\), has an expansion in terms of the generalized moments \(c_{k,n}=\int T_k(x)\,d\lambda_n(x)\) and \(m_{k,n}=\int T_k(x)\,d\nu_n(x)\), where \(T_k(x)\) denote the Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind. The method is illustrated by considering the particular case of the Gegenbauer polynomials (Algorithm 2) and the related problem of computing the entropy of spherical harmonics for different values of the quantum numbers. .

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• Asymptotics of orthogonal-polynomial functionals and Shannon information entropy of Rydberg atoms
• Information-theoretic-based spreading measures of orthogonal polynomials
• Logarithmic potential of Hermite polynomials and information entropies of the harmonic oscillator eigenstates
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