We are interested in the problem of curve identification, motivated by problems in handwriting recognition. Various geometric approaches have been proposed, with one of the most popular being “elastic matching.” We examine the problem using distances defined by inner products on functional spaces. In particular we examine the Legendre and Legendre-Sobolev inner products. We show that both of th...

A new set of modified Legendre rational functions which are mutually orthogonal in L2(0,+∞) is introduced. Various projection and interpolation results using the modified Legendre rational functions are established. These results form the mathematical foundation of related spectral and pseudospectral methods for solving partial differential equations on the half line. A spectral scheme using th...

In this article we decide to define a modified homotopy perturbation for solving non-linear integral equations. Almost, all of the papers that was presented to solve non-linear problems by the homotopy method, they used from two non-linear and linear operators. But we convert a non-linear problem to two suitable non-linear operators also we use from appropriate bases functions such as Legendre ...

The operational matrices of fractional-order integration for the Legendre and Chebyshev wavelets are derived. Block pulse functions and collocation method are employed to derive a general procedure for forming these matrices for both the Legendre and the Chebyshev wavelets. Then numerical methods based on wavelet expansion and these operational matrices are proposed. In this proposed method, by...

In this paper, the Legendre wavelet method for State analysis of time-varying singular nonlinear systems is studied. The properties of Legendre wavelets and its operational matrices are first presented and then are used to convert into algebraic equations. Also the convergence and error analysis for the proposed technique have been discussed. Illustrative examples have been given to demonstrate...

properties of the hybrid of block-pulse functions and lagrange polynomials based on the legendre-gauss-type points are investigated and utilized to define the composite interpolation operator as an extension of the well-known legendre interpolation operator. the uniqueness and interpolating properties are discussed and the corresponding differentiation matrix is also introduced. the applicabili...

In this paper, we present a Taylor-series expansion method for a class of Fredholm singular integro-differential equation with Cauchy kernel. This method uses the truncated Taylor-series polynomial of the unknown function and transforms the integro-differential equation into an nth order linear ordinary differential equa.tion with variable coefficients: ~y Galerkin method we use the orthogonal ...

In this paper, a numerical method for solving the Fredholm and Volterra integral equations is presented. The method is based upon the second Chebyshev wavelet approximation. The properties of the second Chebyshev wavelet are first presented and then operational matrix of integration of the second Chebyshev wavelets basis and product operation matrix of it are derived. The second Chebyshev wavel...

This proceeding is intended to be a first introduction to spectral methods. It is written around some simple problems that are solved explicitly and in details and that aim at demonstrating the power of those methods. The mathematical foundation of the spectral approximation is first introduced, based on the Gauss quadratures. The two usual basis of Legendre and Chebyshev polynomials are then p...

The input/output stability of an interconnected system composed of an ordinary differential equation and a damped string equation is studied. Issued from the literature on time-delay systems, an exact stability result is firstly derived using pole locations. Then, based on the Small-Gain theorem and on the Quadratic Separation framework, some robust stability criteria are provided. The latter f...