The weighting subspaces of the tau method and orthogonal collocation (Q860974)

The authors characterize the weighting spaces associated with two approximation techniques for solving ordinary differential equations: The tau method [\textit{E. L. Ortiz}, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 6, 480--492 (1969; Zbl 0195.45701)] and the orthogonal collocation method. It shows that approximations constructed by means of these two methods are always expressible in terms of a prescribed orthogonal basis, by projection on a suitably chosen finite dimensional weighting subspace. In particular, collocation is a special tau method with a twisted basis.