On a generalization of the Bessel function Neumann expansion

Abstract

The Bessel-Neumann expansion (of integer order) of a function $g:\mathbb{C}\to \mathbb{C}$ corresponds to representing $g$ as a linear combination of basis functions ${\varphi }_0,{\varphi }_1,\dots$, i.e., $g(z)={\sum }_{\ell =0}^{\infty }{w}_{\ell }{\varphi }_{\ell }(s)$, where ${\varphi }_i(z)=J_i(z)$, $i=0,\dots$, are the Bessel functions. In this work, we study an expansion for a more general class of basis functions. More precisely, we assume that the basis functions satisfy an infinite dimensional linear ordinary differential equation associated with a Hessenberg matrix, motivated by the fact that these basis functions occur in certain iterative methods. A procedure to compute the basis functions as well as the coefficients is proposed. Theoretical properties of the expansion are studied. We illustrate that non-standard basis functions can give faster convergence than the Bessel functions.

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