We present evolution equations for a family of paths that results from anisotropically weighting curve energies in non-linear statistics of manifold valued data. This situation arises when performing inference on data that have non-trivial covariance and are anisotropic distributed. The family can be interpreted as most probable paths for a driving semi-martingale that through stochastic develo...

A well–known property of an irreducible singular M–matrix is that it has a generalized inverse which is non–negative, but this is not always true for any generalized inverse. The authors have characterized when the Moore–Penrose inverse of a symmetric, singular, irreducible and tridiagonal M–matrix is itself an M–matrix. We aim here at giving new explicit examples of infinite families of matric...

Let the Sobolev-type inner product f, g = R f gdµ 0 + R f ′ g ′ dµ 1 with µ 0 = w + M δ c , µ 1 = N δ c where w is the Jacobi weight, c is either 1 or −1 and M, N ≥ 0. We obtain estimates and asymptotic properties on [−1, 1] for the polynomials orthonormal with respect to .,. and their kernels. We also compare these polynomials with Jacobi orthonormal polynomials.

We present an informal review of results on asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials, stressing their spectral aspects and similarity in two cases considered. They are polynomials orthonormal on a finite union of disjoint intervals with respect to the Szegö weight and polynomials orthonormal on R with respect to varying weights and having the same union of intervals as the set of oscillations of a...

The concept of k-coherence of two positive measures μ1 and μ2 is useful in the study of the Sobolev orthogonal polynomials. If μ1 or μ2 are compactly supported onRthen any 0-coherentpair or symmetrically 1-coherent pair (μ1, μ2) must contain a Jacobi measure (up to affine transformation). Here examples of k-coherent pairs (k ≥ 1) when neither μ1 nor μ2 are Jacobi are constructed.

An asymptotic expansion for the Jacobi polynomials and for the functions of the second kind is extended to the case of a weight function that is the product of the Jacobi weight function with an arbitrary positive analytic function.

In this paper, a Jacobi-collocation spectral method is developed for Volterra integral equations of second kind with a weakly singular kernel. We use some function transformation and variable transformations to change the equation into a new Volterra integral equation defined on the standard interval [−1, 1], so that the solution of the new equation possesses better regularity and the Jacobi or...

We obtain the time-dependent correlation function describing the evolution of a single spin excitation state in a linear spin chain with isotropic nearestneighbour XY coupling, where the Hamiltonian is related to the Jacobi matrix of a set of orthogonal polynomials. For the Krawtchouk polynomial case, an arbitrary element of the correlation function is expressed in a simple closed form. Its asy...

For little q-Jacobi polynomials, q-Hahn polynomials and big q-Jacobi polynomials we give particular q-hypergeometric series representations in which the termwise q = 0 limit can be taken. When rewritten in matrix form, these series representations can be viewed as decompositions into a lower triangular matrix times upper triangular matrix. We develop a general theory of such decompositions rela...

In recent years, many works on the subject of fractional calculus contain interesting accounts of the theory and applications of fractional calculus operators in a number of areas of mathematical analysis ( such as ordinary and partial differential equations, integral equations, summation of series, etc.). The main object of this paper is to construct multivariable extension of Jacobi polynomia...