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►Partial sums of Fourier orthogonal polynomial expansions are polynomials of best approximation in space and they are also the essential building blocks for approximation in spaces.
…OPs are essential for developing approximation theory on regular domains, including characterization of best approximation.
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►Fourier orthogonal expansions provide essential tools and building blocks for harmonic analysis and computational harmonic analysis.
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►Essentially the same comments that are made in §15.19 concerning the computation of hypergeometric functions apply to the functions described in the present chapter.
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►Lastly, if for infinitely many negative , then is an isolated essential singularity.
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►If the poles are infinite in number, then the point at infinity is called an essential singularity: it is the limit point of the poles.
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►In any neighborhood of an isolated essential singularity, however small, an analytic function assumes every value in with at most one exception.
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►The DLMF wishes to provide users of special functions with essential reference information related to the use and application of special functions in research, development, and education.
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►An equation is said to have the Painlevé property if all its solutions are free from movable branch points; the solutions may have movable poles or movable isolated essential singularities (§1.10(iii)), however.
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►An essential feature of such symmetric operators is that their eigenvalues are real, and eigenfunctions
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►In unusual cases , even for all , such as in the case of the Schrödinger–Coulomb problem () discussed in §18.39 and §33.14, where the point spectrum actually accumulates at the onset of the continuum at , implying an essential singularity, as well as a branch point, in matrix elements of the resolvent, (1.18.66).
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►If then is essentially self-adjoint and if then is self-adjoint.
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►►►Figure 18.39.2: Coulomb–Pollaczek weight functions, , (18.39.50) for , , and .
For the weight function, red curve, has an essential singularity at , as all derivatives vanish as ; the green curve is , to be compared with its histogram approximation in §18.40(ii).
For the weight function, blue curve, is non-zero at , but this point is also an essential singularity as the discrete parts of the weight function of (18.39.51) accumulate as , .
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►The Schrödinger operator essential singularity, seen in the accumulation of discrete eigenvalues for the attractive Coulomb problem, is mirrored in the accumulation of jumps in the discrete Pollaczek–Stieltjes measure as .
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