Applications and Computation of Orthogonal Polynomials

G. Opfer ist Professor am Institut für Angewandte Mathematik der Universität Hamburg.

The sensitivity of least squares polynomial approximation.- Transpose-free look-ahead algorithms for Lanczos' method.- Applications of anti-Gauss quadrature rules in linear algebra.- Stieltjes polynomials and the error of Gauss-Kronrod quadrature formulas.- Fast solution of confluent Vandermonde-like linear systems using polynomial arithmetic.- On discrete polynomial least-squares approximation in moving time windows.- Quadrature rules based on s-orthogonal polynomials for evaluating integrals with strong singularities.- Gegenbauer weight functions admitting L2 Duffin and Schaeffer type inequalities.- Questions related to Gaussian quadrature formulas and two-term recursions.- Construction and computation of a new set of orthogonal polynomials.- Fourier transforms of orthogonal polynomials of singular continuous spectral measures.- On a sequence of fast decreasing polynomial operators.- Müntz orthogonal polynomials and their numerical evaluation.- Positivity of Gauss-Kronrod formulae for a certain ultraspherical weight function.- A Christoffel-Darboux-type formula for Szegö polynomials and polynomial evaluation.- Applications of tensor-valued tri-variate Hermite polynomials and spherical harmonics in the kinetic theory of gases.- Indeterminate moment problems and a conjecture on the growth of the entire functions in the Nevanlinna parametrization.- Spectral methods based on nonclassical orthogonal polynomials.- Author index.