We perform a complete study of the truncation error of the Gegenbauer series. This series yields an expansion of the Green kernel of the Helmholtz equation, $\frac{{\mathrm{e}}^{i|\overrightarrow{u}-\overrightarrow{v}|}}{4\pi i|\overrightarrow{u}-\overrightarrow{v}|}$, which is the core of the Fast Multipole Method for the integral equations. We consider the truncated series where the summation is performed over the indices $\ell \le L$. We prove that if $v=|\overrightarrow{v}|$ is large enough, the truncated series gives rise to an error lower than $ϵ$ as soon as $L$ satisfies $L+\frac{1}{2}\simeq v+C{W}^{\frac{2}{3}}\left(K\left(\alpha \right){ϵ}^{-\delta }{v}^{\gamma }\right)v^{\frac{1}{3}}$ where $W$ is the Lambert function, $K\left(\alpha \right)$ depends only on $\alpha =\frac{|\overrightarrow{u}|}{|\overrightarrow{v}|}$ and $C,\delta ,\gamma$ are...

We perform a complete study of the truncation error of the Gegenbauer series. This series yields an expansion of the Green kernel of the Helmholtz equation, $\frac{{\mathrm{e}}^{i|\overrightarrow{u}-\overrightarrow{v}|}}{4\pi i|\overrightarrow{u}-\overrightarrow{v}|}$, which is the core of the Fast Multipole Method for the integral equations. We consider the truncated series where the summation is performed over the indices $\ell \le L$. We prove that if $v=|\overrightarrow{v}|$ is large enough, the truncated series gives rise to an error lower than ϵ as soon as L satisfies $L+\frac{1}{2}\simeq v+C{W}^{\frac{2}{3}}\left(K\left(\alpha \right){ϵ}^{-\delta }{v}^{\gamma }\right)v^{\frac{1}{3}}$ where W is the Lambert function, $K\left(\alpha \right)$ depends only on...

We perform a complete study of the truncation error of the Jacobi-Anger series. This series expands every plane wave ${\mathrm{e}}^{i\widehat{s}·\overrightarrow{v}}$ in terms of spherical harmonics ${\left\{Y_{\ell ,m}\left(\widehat{s}\right)\right\}}_{\left|m\right|\le \ell \le \infty }$. We consider the truncated series where the summation is performed over the $(\ell ,m)$'s satisfying $\left|m\right|\le \ell \le L$. We prove that if $v=|\overrightarrow{v}|$ is large enough, the truncated series gives rise to an error lower than ϵ as soon as L satisfies $L+\frac{1}{2}\simeq v+C{W}^{\frac{2}{3}}\left(K{ϵ}^{-\delta }{v}^{\gamma }\right)v^{\frac{1}{3}}$ where W is the Lambert function and $C,K,\delta ,\gamma$ are pure positive constants. Numerical experiments show that this asymptotic is...

Let || · || be the uniform norm in the unit disk. We study the quantities Mn (α) := inf (||zP(z) + α|| - α) where the infimum is taken over all polynomials P of degree n - 1 with ||P(z)|| = 1 and α > 0. In a recent paper by Fournier, Letac and Ruscheweyh (Math. Nachrichten 283 (2010), 193-199) it was shown that infα>0Mn (α) = 1/n. We find the exact values of Mn (α) and determine corresponding extremal polynomials. The method applied uses known cases of maximal ranges of polynomials.

Let {bH(t), t∈ℝ} be the fractional brownian motion with parameter 0<H<1. When 1/2<H, we consider diffusion equations of the type X(t)=c+∫0tσ(X(u)) dbH(u)+∫0tμ(X(u)) du. In different particular models where σ(x)=σ or σ(x)=σ  x and μ(x)=μ or μ(x)=μ  x, we propose a central limit theorem for estimators of H and of σ based on regression methods. Then we give tests of the hypothesis on σ for these models. We also consider functional estimation on σ(⋅)...

It is well known that $X/(X+Y)$ has the beta distribution when $X$ and $Y$ follow the Dirichlet distribution. Linear combinations of the form $\alpha X+\beta Y$ have also been studied in Provost and Cheong [S. B. Provost and Y.-H. Cheong: On the distribution of linear combinations of the components of a Dirichlet random vector. Canad. J. Statist. 28 (2000)]. In this paper, we derive the exact distribution of the product $P=XY$ (involving the Gauss hypergeometric function) and the corresponding moment properties. We also propose...