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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788756103321

Autore

Jirari Alouf <1965->

Titolo

Second-order Sturm-Liouville difference equations and orthogonal polynomials / / Alouf Jirari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

1-4704-0121-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; Number 542

Disciplina

515/.625

Soggetti

Sturm-Liouville equation

Difference equations

Orthogonal polynomials

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"January 1995, Volume 113, Number 542 (second of 4 numbers)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""1.1 The Vibrating String""; ""1.2 Network Theory""; ""1.3 Random Walk With Discrete Time Process""; ""Chapter 2. Regular Sturm-Liouville Problem""; ""2.1 Set Up""; ""2.2 Preliminary Results""; ""2.3 Orthogonality, Eigenfunction Expansion, Spectral Function, and Green's Function""; ""Chapter 3. Singular Sturm-Liouville Problem""; ""3.1 Definition""; ""3.2 C[sub(b')] Circles""; ""3.3 C[sub(a')] Circles""; ""3.4 Existence of Boundary Conditions""; ""3.5 Singular Boundary Value Problems""

""3.6 Green's Function""""3.7 Self-Adjointness""; ""3.8 λ-Independence of Boundary Conditions""; ""3.9 Green's Formulas""; ""3.10 Spectral Resolution""; ""3.11 Limit-Point and Limit-Circle Tests""; ""Chapter 4. Polynomial Solutions""; ""4.1 Formal Self-Adjointness""; ""4.2 Polynomial Solutions""; ""4.3 Orthogonality of Eigenfunctions""; ""4.4 Eigenfunction Expansion""; ""Chapter 5. Polynomial Examples""; ""5.1 Classification""; ""5.2 Recurrence Relations""; ""5.3 Weight Functions and Self-Adjoint Forms""; ""5.4 Orthogonality""; ""5.5 Evaluation of the ||.||[sup(2)]""; ""5.6 Zeros""

""Chapter 6. The Four Representative Examples""""6.1 The Generalized Tchebyshev Polynomials""; ""6.2 The Generalized Laguerre



Polynomials""; ""6.3 The Krawtchouk Polynomials""; ""6.4 The Charlier Polynomials""; ""Chapter 7. Left-Definite Spaces""; ""7.1 Finite Intervals""; ""7.2 Infinite Intervals""; ""References""