This book establishes bounds and asymptotics under almost minimal conditions on the varying weights, and applies them to universality limits and entropy integrals. Orthogonal polynomials associated with varying weights play a key role in analyzing random matrices and other topics. This book will be of use to a wide community of mathematicians, physicists, and statisticians dealing with techniques of potential theory, orthogonal polynomials, approximation theory, as well as random matrices.
This book compiles research and surveys devoted to the areas of mathematical analysis, approximation theory, and optimization. Being dedicated to A.-M. Legendre's work, contributions to this volume are devoted to those branches of mathematics and its applications that have been influenced, directly or indirectly, by the mathematician. Additional contributions provide a historical background as it relates to Legendre's work and its association to the foundation of Greece's higher education. Topics covered in this book include the investigation of the Jensen-Steffensen inequality, Ostrowski and trapezoid type inequalities, a Hilbert-Type Inequality, Hardy’s inequality, dynamic unilateral contact problems, square-free values of a category of integers, a maximum principle for general nonlinear operators, the application of Ergodic Theory to an alternating series expansion for real numbers, bounds for similarity condition numbers of unbounded operators, finite element methods with higher order polynomials, generating functions for the Fubini type polynomials, local asymptotics for orthonormal polynomials, trends in geometric function theory, quasi variational inclusions, Kleene fixed point theorems, ergodic states, spontaneous symmetry breaking and quasi-averages. It is hoped that this book will be of interest to a wide spectrum of readers from several areas of pure and applied sciences, and will be useful to undergraduate students, graduate level students, and researchers who want to be kept up to date on the results and theories in the subjects covered in this volume.
Polynomials are useful mathematical tools. They are simply defined and can be calculated quickly on computer systems. They can be differentiated and integrated easily and can be pieced together to form spline curves. After Weierstrass approximation Theorem, polynomial sequences have acquired considerable importance not only in the various branches of Mathematics, but also in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering disciplines. There is a wide literature on specific polynomial sequences. But there is no literature that attempts a systematic exposition of the main basic methods for the study of a generic polynomial sequence and, at the same time, gives an overview of the main polynomial classes and related applications, at least in numerical analysis. In this book, through an elementary matrix calculus-based approach, an attempt is made to fill this gap by exposing dated and very recent results, both theoretical and applied.
The analysis of orthogonal polynomials associated with general weights has been a major theme in classical analysis this century. In this monograph, the authors define and discuss their classes of weights, state several of their results on Christoffel functions, Bernstein inequalities, restricted range inequalities, and record their bounds on the orthogonal polynomials, as well as their asymptotic results. This book will be of interest to researchers in approximation theory, potential theory, as well as in some branches of engineering.
The general theory of orthogonal polynomials was developed in the late 19th century from a study of continued fractions by P. L. Chebyshev, even though special cases were introduced earlier by Legendre, Hermite, Jacobi, Laguerre, and Chebyshev himself. It was further developed by A. A. Markov, T. J. Stieltjes, and many other mathematicians. The book by Szego, originally published in 1939, is the first monograph devoted to the theory of orthogonal polynomials and its applications in many areas, including analysis, differential equations, probability and mathematical physics. Even after all the years that have passed since the book first appeared, and with many other books on the subject published since then, this classic monograph by Szego remains an indispensable resource both as a textbook and as a reference book. It can be recommended to anyone who wants to be acquainted with this central topic of mathematical analysis.
The analysis of orthogonal polynomials associated with general weights was a major theme in classical analysis in the twentieth century and undoubtedly will continue to grow in importance in the future. In this monograph, the authors investigate orthogonal polynomials for exponential weights defined on a finite or infinite interval. The interval should contain 0, but need not be symmetric about 0 ; likewise, the weight need not be even. The authors establish bounds and asymptotics for orthonormal and extremal polynomials, and their associated Christoffel functions. They deduce bounds on zeros of extremal and orthogonal polynomials, and also establish Markov-Bernstein and Nikolskii inequalities. The book will be of interest to researchers in approximation theory, harmonic analysis, numerical analysis, potential theory, and all those that apply orthogonal polynomials.
This collection, in three volumes, presents the scientific achievements of Roderick S C Wong, spanning 45 years of his career. It provides a comprehensive overview of the author's work which includes significant discoveries and pioneering contributions, such as his deep analysis on asymptotic approximations of integrals and uniform asymptotic expansions of orthogonal polynomials and special functions; his important contributions to perturbation methods for ordinary differential equations and difference equations; and his advocation of the Riemann–Hilbert approach for global asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials. The book is an essential source of reference for mathematicians, statisticians, engineers, and physicists. It is also a suitable reading for graduate students and interested senior year undergraduate students. Contents:Volume 1:The Asymptotic Behaviour of μ(z, β,α)A Generalization of Watson's LemmaLinear Equations in Infinite MatricesAsymptotic Solutions of Linear Volterra Integral Equations with Singular KernelsOn Infinite Systems of Linear Differential EquationsError Bounds for Asymptotic Expansions of HankelExplicit Error Terms for Asymptotic Expansions of StieltjesExplicit Error Terms for Asymptotic Expansions of MellinAsymptotic Expansion of Multiple Fourier TransformsExact Remainders for Asymptotic Expansions of FractionalAsymptotic Expansion of the Hilbert TransformError Bounds for Asymptotic Expansions of IntegralsDistributional Derivation of an Asymptotic ExpansionOn a Method of Asymptotic Evaluation of Multiple IntegralsAsymptotic Expansion of the Lebesgue Constants Associated with Polynomial InterpolationQuadrature Formulas for Oscillatory Integral TransformsGeneralized Mellin Convolutions and Their Asymptotic Expansions,A Uniform Asymptotic Expansion of the Jacobi Polynomials with Error BoundsAsymptotic Expansion of a Multiple IntegralAsymptotic Expansion of a Double Integral with a Curve of Stationary PointsSzegö's Conjecture on Lebesgue Constants for Legendre SeriesUniform Asymptotic Expansions of Laguerre PolynomialsTransformation to Canonical Form for Uniform Asymptotic ExpansionsMultidimensional Stationary Phase Approximation: Boundary Stationary PointTwo-Dimensional Stationary Phase Approximation: Stationary Point at a CornerAsymptotic Expansions for Second-Order Linear Difference EquationsAsymptotic Expansions for Second-Order Linear Difference Equations, IIAsymptotic Behaviour of the Fundamental Solution to ∂u/∂t = –(–Δ)muA Bernstein-Type Inequality for the Jacobi PolynomialError Bounds for Asymptotic Expansions of Laplace ConvolutionsVolume 2:Asymptotic Behavior of the Pollaczek Polynomials and Their ZerosJustification of the Stationary Phase Approximation in Time-Domain AsymptoticsAsymptotic Expansions of the Generalized Bessel PolynomialsUniform Asymptotic Expansions for Meixner Polynomials"Best Possible" Upper and Lower Bounds for the Zeros of the Bessel Function Jν(x)Justification of a Perturbation Approximation of the Klein–Gordon EquationSmoothing of Stokes's Discontinuity for the Generalized Bessel Function. IIUniform Asymptotic Expansions of a Double Integral: Coalescence of Two Stationary PointsUniform Asymptotic Formula for Orthogonal Polynomials with Exponential WeightOn the Asymptotics of the Meixner–Pollaczek Polynomials and Their ZerosGevrey Asymptotics and Stieltjes Transforms of Algebraically Decaying FunctionsExponential Asymptotics of the Mittag–Leffler FunctionOn the Ackerberg–O'Malley ResonanceAsymptotic Expansions for Second-Order Linear Difference Equations with a Turning PointOn a Two-Point Boundary-Value Problem with Spurious SolutionsShooting Method for Nonlinear Singularly Perturbed Boundary-Value ProblemsVolume 3:Asymptotic Expansion of the Krawtchouk Polynomials and Their ZerosOn a Uniform Treatment of Darboux's MethodLinear Difference Equations with Transition PointsUniform Asymptotics for Jacobi Polynomials with Varying Large Negative Parameters — A Riemann–Hilbert ApproachUniform Asymptotics of the Stieltjes–Wigert Polynomials via the Riemann–Hilbert ApproachA Singularly Perturbed Boundary-Value Problem Arising in Phase TransitionsOn the Number of Solutions to Carrier's ProblemAsymptotic Expansions for Riemann–Hilbert ProblemsOn the Connection Formulas of the Third Painlevé TranscendentHyperasymptotic Expansions of the Modified Bessel Function of the Third Kind of Purely Imaginary OrderGlobal Asymptotics for Polynomials Orthogonal with Exponential Quartic WeightThe Riemann–Hilbert Approach to Global Asymptotics of Discrete Orthogonal Polynomials with Infinite NodesGlobal Asymptotics of the Meixner PolynomialsAsymptotics of Orthogonal Polynomials via Recurrence RelationsUniform Asymptotic Expansions for the Discrete Chebyshev PolynomialsGlobal Asymptotics of the Hahn PolynomialsGlobal Asymptotics of Stieltjes–Wigert Polynomials Readership: Undergraduates, gradudates and researchers in the areas of asymptotic approximations of integrals, singular perturbation theory, difference equations and Riemann–Hilbert approach. Key Features:This book provides a broader viewpoint of asymptoticsIt contains about half of the papers that Roderick Wong has written on asymptoticsIt demonstrates how analysis is used to make some formal results mathematically rigorousThis collection presents the scientific achievements of the authorKeywords:Asymptotic Analysis;Perturbation Method;Special Functions;Orthogonal Polynomials;Integral Transforms;Integral Equations;Ordinary Differential Equations;Difference Equations;Riemann–Hilbert Problem
