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Polynomial approximations to functions of operators.

dc.contributor.advisorMika, Janusz R.
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Pravin.
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-22T07:27:27Z
dc.date.available2012-03-22T07:27:27Z
dc.date.created1994
dc.date.issued1994
dc.descriptionThesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, 1994.en
dc.description.abstractTo solve the linear equation Ax = f, where f is an element of Hilbert space H and A is a positive definite operator such that the spectrum (T (A) ( [m,M] , we approximate -1 the inverse operator A by an operator V which is a polynomial in A. Using the spectral theory of bounded normal operators the problem is reduced to that of approximating a function of the real variable by polynomials of best uniform approximation. We apply two different techniques of evaluating A-1 so that the operator V is chosen either as a polynomial P (A) when P (A) approximates the n n function 1/A on the interval [m,M] or a polynomial Qn (A) when 1 - A Qn (A) approximates the function zero on [m,M]. The polynomials Pn (A) and Qn (A) satisfy three point recurrence relations, thus the approximate solution vectors P (A)f n and Q (A)f can be evaluated iteratively. We compare the procedures involving n Pn (A)f and Qn (A)f by solving matrix vector systems where A is positive definite. We also show that the technique can be applied to an operator which is not selfadjoint, but close, in the sense of operator norm, to a selfadjoint operator. The iterative techniques we develop are used to solve linear systems arising from the discretization of Freedholm integral equations of the second kind. Both smooth and weakly singular kernels are considered. We show that earlier work done on the approximation of linear functionals < x,g > , where 9 EH, involve a zero order approximation to the inverse operator and are thus special cases of a general result involving an approximation of arbitrary degree to A -1 .en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/5140
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectOperator theory.en
dc.subjectHilbert space.en
dc.subjectSpectral theory (Mathematics)en
dc.subjectApproximation theory.en
dc.subjectPolynomial operators.en
dc.subjectTheses--Mathematics.en
dc.titlePolynomial approximations to functions of operators.en
dc.typeThesisen

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