The relationships between Chebyshev, Legendre and Jacobi polynomials: the generic superiority of Chebyshev polynomials and three important exceptions

DOI10.1007/s10915-013-9751-7zbMath1301.41003OpenAlexW2019689641MaRDI QIDQ461202

Rolfe Petschek, John P. Boyd

Publication date: 10 October 2014

Published in: Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-013-9751-7

zbMATH Keywords

rate of convergenceChebyshev polynomialsJacobi polynomialsLegendre polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal functions and polynomials, general theory of nontrigonometric harmonic analysis (42C05) Approximation by polynomials (41A10) Fourier coefficients, Fourier series of functions with special properties, special Fourier series (42A16)

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