A. M. Legendre noted that Euler’s pentagonal number theorem implies that the number of partitions of n into an even number of distinct parts almost always equals the number of partitions of n into an odd number of distinct parts (the exceptions occur when n is a pentagonal number). Subsequently other classes of partitions, including overpartitions, have yielded related Legendre theorems. In thi...

The theory of surfaces in Euclidean space can be naturally formulated in the more general context of Legendre surfaces into the space of contact elements. We address the question of deformability of Legendre surfaces with respect to the symmetry group of Lie sphere contact transformations from the point of view of the deformation theory of submanifolds in homogeneous spaces. Necessary and suffi...

Abstract. The restricted isometry property (RIP) is an important matrix condition in compressed sensing, but the best matrix constructions to date use randomness. This paper leverages pseudorandom properties of the Legendre symbol to reduce the number of random bits in an RIP matrix with Bernoulli entries. In this regard, the Legendre symbol is not special—our main result naturally generalizes ...

In this paper Legendre integral method is proposed to solve optimal control problems governed by higher order ordinary differential equations. Legendre approximat ion method reduced the problem to a constrained optimizat ion problem. Penalty partial quadratic interpolation method is presented to solve the resulting constrained optimization problem. Error estimates for the Legendre approximation...

A coupled method of Laplace transform and Legendre wavelets is presented to obtain exact solutions of Lane-Emden-type equations. By employing properties of Laplace transform, a new operator is first introduced and then its Legendre wavelets operational matrix is derived to convert the Lane-Emden equations into a system of algebraic equations. Block pulse functions are used to calculate the Lege...

-The discrete Legendre transform is compared to the discrete cosine transform (DCT), which is based on Chebyshev polynomials, in terms of image compression efficiency. Using standard test images in various image compression configurations, the DCT is found to perform marginally better than the discrete Legendre transform in all cases examined. A simplified fundamental matrix theory for construc...

In the generalized Legendre transform construction the Kähler potential is related to a particular function. Here, the form of this function appropriate to the k-monopole metric is calculated from the known twistor theory of monopoles.

The Jacobi-Stirling numbers and the Legendre-Stirling numbers of the first and second kind were first introduced by Everitt et al. (2002) and (2007) in the spectral theory. In this paper we note that Jacobi-Stirling numbers and Legendre-Stirling numbers are specializations of elementary and complete symmetric functions. We then study combinatorial interpretations of this specialization and obta...

A general framework is introduced to analyze the approximation properties of mapped Legendre polynomials and of interpolations based on mapped Legendre–Gauss–Lobatto points. Optimal error estimates featuring explicit expressions on the mapping parameters for several popular mappings are derived. These results not only play an important role in numerical analysis of mapped Legendre spectral and ...