Stability properties of disk polynomials (Q2021763)

Zernike polynomials are used in optics to represent wavefronts and describe optical aberrations. Disk polynomials are generalizations of Zernike polynomials for radial weights. In this paper the stability properties of disk polynomials have been analyzed. A conditioning associated with the representation of the least squares approximation with respect to the bases formed by disk polynomials corresponding to radial weight have been introduced. It has been shown that among all disk polynomials, the least bounds are obtained for Zernike polynomials corresponding to the radial weight \(\frac{\alpha+1}{\pi}(1-r^{2})^{\alpha}\) for \(\alpha=0\).