Convergence analysis of the summation of the factorially divergent Euler series by Padé approximants and the delta transformation

DOI10.1016/J.APNUM.2015.03.007zbMATH Open1325.65008arXiv1405.2474OpenAlexW2083330700MaRDI QIDQ2347489FDOQ2347489

Authors: Riccardo Borghi, Ernst Joachim Weniger 

Publication date: 27 May 2015

Published in: Applied Numerical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Sequence transformations are valuable numerical tools that have been used with considerable success for the acceleration of convergence and the summation of diverging series. However, our understanding of their theoretical properties is far from satisfactory. The Euler series $mathcalE(z)simsu{m}_{n=0}^{infty}(-1{)}^{n}n!z^n$ is a very important model for the ubiquitous factorially divergent perturbation expansions in physics. In this article, we analyze the summation of the Euler series by Pad'e approximants and the delta transformation [E. J. Weniger, Comput. Phys. Rep. Vol.10, 189 (1989), Eq. (8.4-4)] which is a powerful nonlinear Levin-type transformation that works very well in the case of strictly alternating convergent or divergent series. Our analysis is based on a new factorial series representation of the truncation error of the Euler series [R. Borghi, Appl. Num. Math. Vol.60, 1242 (2010)]. We derive explicit expressions for the transformation errors of Pad'e approximants and of the delta transformation. A subsequent asymptotic analysis proves emph{rigorously} the convergence of both Pad'e and delta. Our asymptotic estimates clearly show the superiority of the delta transformation over Pad'e. This is in agreement with previous numerical results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2474

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zbMATH Keywords

Euler seriesconvergence proofssummation of factorial divergenceWeniger's delta transformationPadé approximants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical summation of series (65B10) Special methods of summability (40G99) Padé approximation (41A21) General theorems on summability (40D05)

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