Fourier Series of Gegenbauer-Sobolev Polynomials
\'Oscar Ciaurri, Judit M\'inguez

TL;DR
This paper investigates the properties and convergence of partial sum operators for Gegenbauer-Sobolev polynomials within a Sobolev space, providing a detailed characterization and analysis of their behavior.
Contribution
It offers a complete characterization of the partial sum operator for Gegenbauer-Sobolev polynomials and studies their convergence in Sobolev spaces, advancing understanding of these polynomials.
Findings
Characterization of the partial sum operator in Sobolev space
Analysis of convergence properties of the partial sums
Insights into the behavior of Gegenbauer-Sobolev polynomial expansions
Abstract
We study the partial sum operator for a Sobolev-type inner product related to the classical Gegenbauer polynomials. A complete characterization of the partial sum operator in an appropriate Sobolev space is given. Moreover, we analyze the convergence of the partial sum operators.
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Fourier Series of Gegenbauer–Sobolev Polynomials
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Fourier Series of Gegenbauer–Sobolev Polynomials††This paper is a contribution to the Special Issue on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications (OPSFA14). The full collection is available at https://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/OPSFA2017.html
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Óscar CIAURRI and Judit MÍNGUEZ
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Ó. Ciaurri and J. Mínguez
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Departamento de Matemáticas y Computación, Universidad de La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, Spain \Email[email protected], [email protected]
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Received January 19, 2018, in final form March 13, 2018; Published online March 17, 2018
\Abstract
We study the partial sum operator for a Sobolev-type inner product related to the classical Gegenbauer polynomials. A complete characterization of the partial sum operator in an appropriate Sobolev space is given. Moreover, we analyze the convergence of the partial sum operators.
\Keywords
Sobolev-type inner product; Sobolev polynomials; Gegenbauer polynomials; partial sum operator
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42A20; 33C47
1 Introduction
Let the Sobolev-type inner product be
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where , , and
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is the probability measure corresponding to the Gegenbauer polynomials.
Let be the sequence of normalized Gegenbauer–Sobolev orthonormal polynomials with respect to the inner product (1.1). For each appropriate function , we define its sequence of Fourier–Gegenbauer–Sobolev coefficients by
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and the -th partial sum operator as
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Given , we say that if is a measurable function in and
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Let us define the measure . We consider the space , with , as the set of equivalence classes, with respect to the (semi)norm in , of measurable functions defined on such that there exists an element in the class for which and are defined, and
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The main target of this paper is the study of the uniform boundedness of the operators . In fact, we will prove the following characterization.
Theorem 1.1**.**
Let , , and . There exists a constant , independent of and , such that
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if and only if
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The uniform boundedness of the partial sum operators for Gegenbauer polynomials in was given by Pollard [11] who extended it to the Jacobi setting in [12]. A general result including weights for Jacobi expansions can be seen in [9]. In [3], by applying the boundedness with weights of the Hilbert transform, the authors did a complete study of the boundedness of the partial sum operators related to generalized Jacobi weights. The same authors studied the generalized Jacobi weights with mass points on the interval (see [4]). The uniform boundedness with weights of the partial sum operator for the generalized Jacobi polynomials has been used to proved, using an idea dating back to J. Marcinkiewicz, some results related to interpolating polynomials (see [15, 16] and the references in [10]).
It would be natural to consider our problem for the Jacobi weight instead of the Gegenbauer one. This extension requires some results about the corresponding Jacobi–Sobolev polynomials that are unavailable in the literature at this moment. We hope to develop these tools in a forthcoming paper to obtain a complete characterization in that case as well.
As far as we know, a complete characterization of the uniform boundedness of the partial sums in the Sobolev setting is completely new. In [6], the authors observed that the main obstacle to analyze this problem is the lack of Christoffel–Darboux formula for Sobolev orthogonal polynomials. As a consequence of this fact, except for certain particular cases, the convergence of Fourier expansions in Sobolev orthogonal polynomials has not been resolved. For example, the particular case of the Fourier series associated to the Jacobi–Sobolev polynomials defined by the inner product
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was treated in [5] but, unfortunately, the given results are not completely satisfactory.
Our proof of Theorem 1.1 relies on some results about multipliers and transplantation operators for Jacobi expansions proved by Muckenhoupt and other authors in the eighties of the last century (see [8] and the references therein).
From a standard argument, the uniform boundedness of the operator will imply the convergence for functions in the class if the polynomials form a dense class. However, the reverse implication is not true because the space is not complete. The density of the polynomials is contained in the next result.
Theorem 1.2**.**
The set of polynomials is dense in the space . That is, given , for all there exists a polynomial of degree such that
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Now, from Theorems 1.1 and 1.2, we deduce the convergence for functions in the class of the partial sums .
Corollary 1.3**.**
Let with and . If
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then
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In Section 2 we present the necessary definitions and results concerning to the Gegenbauer and Gegenbauer–Sobolev polynomials. Section 3 and Section 4 are devoted to prove Theorem 1.1 and Theorem 1.2, respectively.
2 Definitions and auxiliary results
Let be the sequence of Gegenbauer polynomials given by the Rodrigues formula
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If we call the sequence of orthogonal polynomials with respect to (1.1), the following relation between and was proved in [1]
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where is the shifted factorial (or Pochhammer symbol), defined by , and
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Here and elsewhere we use the convention that if .
In [7] it was proved the identity
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Then , where . Now, denoting by the sequence of orthonormal Gegenbauer polynomials, given by with
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from (2.1) we can write
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where
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and .
We consider the notations
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for some constants and that will be different in each occurrence of the and , respectively. With the previous notation, by using that
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for any , we deduce in an easy way that
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for any .
Lemma 2.1**.**
Let . Then the constants , , and in (2.2) satisfy the following:
If and ,
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for any .
If and ,
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If and ,
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Proof.
From (2.3) we have
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and , for any . Then, using that (2.4), the result follows. ∎
The following results, that we will use in the proof of Theorem 1.1, can be found in [7]. The notation appearing in Lemma 2.3, , indicates the existence of positive constants and such that for large enough.
Lemma 2.2**.**
Let be the sequence of orthonormal polynomials with respect to the inner product (1.1), then
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Lemma 2.3**.**
Let be the sequence of orthonormal polynomials with respect to the inner product (1.1), then
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Let be the -th partial sum of Fourier expansion in terms of orthonormal Gegenbauer polynomials,
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From the main result in [8] we can deduce the following result
Lemma 2.4**.**
Let and . There exists a constant , independent of and , such that
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if and only if
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Let be an integer number. We define the transplantation operator
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The operator is well defined, for example, for functions having a finite expansion in terms of the Gegenbauer polynomials . The following result plays a crucial role in our work. It is essentially a special case of a general weighted transplantation theorem due to Muckenhoupt, see [9, Theorem 1.6].
Lemma 2.5**.**
Let , , and . If then
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The last tool that we will need for the proof of Theorem 1.1 is related to the boundedness of a specific multiplier for Gegenbauer expansions. We define the operator
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Lemma 2.6**.**
Let and . If and
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then
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This lemma is a particular case of [9, Theorem 1.10] because the multiplier belongs to the class there defined.
3 Proof of Theorem 1.1
Taking the kernel
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it is easy to see that
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Recall that
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The necessity of the condition (1.2) is a consequence of [2, Theorem 1] and its sufficiency will be obtained from two following propositions.
Proposition 3.1**.**
Let and . If (1.2) holds, then
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where is a constant independent of and .
Proposition 3.2**.**
Let and . If (1.2) holds, then
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where is a constant independent of and .
Proof of Proposition 3.1.
From Minkowski’s inequality, we know that
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First, it will be proved that
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Using (2.2), we have
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where
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By using a standard duality argument, to deduce (3.2) it is enough to prove
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for .
By Lemma 2.1, each operator can be decomposed as
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for some nonnegative constants , and , with
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and
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where .
From the well-known estimate (it follows from [14, Theorem 7.32.2, p. 169])
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with a constant independent of , we deduce
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for . In this way, applying Hölder inequality,
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for each verifying (1.2).
It is easy to check that
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for a constant , with and g(x)=\big{(}1-x^{2}\big{)}^{-j/2}f(x). Then, if satisfies (1.2), from Lemma 2.4, with and , we deduce
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Now, for , we can check that
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for a constant , whith h(x)=\big{(}1-x^{2}\big{)}^{-m/2}f(x). So, using Lemma 2.5 with , , and , we have
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where in the last step we have used Lemma 2.4 as we have done for .
To analyze the operators we observe the identities
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with g(x)=\big{(}1-x^{2}\big{)}^{-j/2}f(x) and h(x)=\big{(}1-x^{2}\big{)}^{-m/2}f(x). Then the boundedness of these operators follows as in the previous cases but using moreover the estimate
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which can be deduced from Lemma 2.6 taking and under the assumption (1.2). In this way the proof of (3.2) is completed.
To finish the proof of (3.1), we are going to prove the estimates
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For (3.3) we suppose , because in other case this element does not appear in the norm. From Lemmas 2.2 and 2.3, for , we have
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Then (3.3) is deduced immediately because the integral
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is finite for .
To prove (3.4) we suppose , because if the inequality is trivially true. Again, by Lemmas 2.2 and 2.3, for , we obtain the bounds
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Then, as in the previous case, (3.4) is a consequence of the finiteness of the integral (3.5). ∎
Proof of Proposition 3.2.
We are going to show the estimates
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and
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The analysis of , for , and , for , are completely similar and the details will be omitted.
It is clear that
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If , from Lemmas 2.2 and 2.3 it is obtained that
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Then, applying Hölder inequality, we have
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because the last integral converges if , which is equivalent to . On the other hand, using again Lemma 2.3 we deduce the bounds
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and
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which imply, analyzing separately the cases and ,
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and (3.6) is proved.
From the identity
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and the estimates for , deduced from Lemmas 2.2 and 2.3,
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and
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the proof of (3.7) is obtained in the same way as (3.6). ∎
4 Proof of Theorem 1.2
Proof.
Let and . From [13, Theorem 4.1], we have that the space is dense in . Then, there exists a function such that
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with . We take now a function that satisfies
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and
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Then
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and
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On the other hand, given there exists a polynomial of degree such that
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Then, and the proof is completed. ∎
Acknowledgements
The authors are highly indebted to professor J.M. Rodríguez for his helpful comments about the proof of Theorem 1.2. The authors were supported by grant MTM2015-65888-C04-4-P from Spanish Government.
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