ultraspherical

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adjective

Related to or involving a Gegenbauer polynomial.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiveultraspherical (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemathematicsRelated to or involving a Gegenbauer polynomial.

    Thus, an estimate for 0 < v < 1, can be derived from theorem 6.6.1, by noting that v is an ultraspherical weight function, whose exponent is negative.

    2008, Daniele Funaro, Polynomial Approximation of Differential Equations, →ISBN, page 116
    1 more example

    We develop a spectral method for solving univariate singular integral equations over unions of intervals by utilizing Chebyshev and ultraspherical polynomials to reformulate the equations as almost-banded infinite-dimensional systems.

    2015, Richard Mikael Slevinsky, Sheehan Olver, “A fast and well-conditioned spectral method for singular integral equations”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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