Legendre expansions of power series

DOI10.1216/RMJM/1181070407MaRDI QIDQ1567145zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 27 August 2001

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://math.la.asu.edu/~rmmc/rmj/VOL29-4/CONT29-4/CONT29-4.html

approximation Fourier-Legendre coefficients Fourier-Legendre series Legendre expansions power series sum

Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Convergence and divergence of series and sequences of functions (40A30) Fourier series in special orthogonal functions (Legendre polynomials, Walsh functions, etc.) (42C10) General harmonic expansions, frames (42C15)

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The author considers the functions which are the sums of power series \(\sum_{n=0}^\infty a_n x^n\) on \((-1,1)\) or on \([-1,1]\). He gives a method of approximate calculation of the Fourier-Legendre coefficients of such functions with an estimation of the error. There is also an estimation of \(L^2\)-approximation of the function \(f(x)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty a_n x^n\) by its Fourier-Legendre sums. Theorem 2. Let \(f(x)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty a_n x^n\), where the series \(\sum_{i=0}^\infty a_{2i}\) and \(\sum_{i=0}^\infty a_{2i+1}\) converge, and let \(P_n(x)=\sum_{i=0}^n b_i p_i(x)\) be the partial sum of order \(n\) of Fourier-Legendre series of the function \(f(x)\). Then \[ \left( \int_{-1}^1(f(x)-P_n(x))^2 dx \right)^{1 \over 2} \leq \left( {8 \over 2n+3} \right)^{1 \over 2} (\varepsilon(n,0)+\varepsilon(n,1)), \] for \(x\in(-1,1)\) and \[ \begin{multlined} |f(x)-P_n(x)|\leq \\ \leq 2(\varepsilon(n,0)+\varepsilon(n,1))|x|^{n+1} + {2\varepsilon(n,0) \over n+2} + \left( 3-{2\over\sqrt n} \right) \max\{\varepsilon(n,0),\varepsilon(n,1)\} \left( {32\pi\over 1-x^2} \right)^{1\over 2},\end{multlined} \] where \[ \varepsilon(n,t)=\max\Biggl\{ \biggl|\sum_{2i+t>k} a_{2i+t} \biggr|: k \geq n \Biggr\} . \]

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