Author : Alouf Jirari
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 082180359X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (218 download)
Book Synopsis Second-Order Sturm-Liouville Difference Equations and Orthogonal Polynomials by : Alouf Jirari
Download or read book Second-Order Sturm-Liouville Difference Equations and Orthogonal Polynomials written by Alouf Jirari and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-written book is a timely and significant contribution to the understanding of difference equations. Presenting machinery for analyzing many discrete physical situations, the book will be of interest to physicists and engineers as well as mathematicians. The book develops a theory for regular and singular Sturm-Liouville boundary value problems for difference equations, generalizing many of the known results for differential equations. Discussing the self-adjointness of these problems as well as their abstract spectral resolution in the appropriate $L^2$ setting, the book gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a second-order difference operator to be self-adjoint and have orthogonal polynomials as eigenfunctions. These polynomials are classified into four categories, each of which is given a properties survey and a representative example. Finally, the book shows that the various difference operators defined for these problems are still self-adjoint when restricted to ``energy norms''. This book is suitable as a text for an advanced graduate course on Sturm-Liouville operators or on applied analysis.