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ultraspherical

ultraspherical adjective: related to or involving a Gegenbauer polynomial.

ultraspherical: related to or involving a Gegenbauer polynomial
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Adjective

ultraspherical (not comparable)

  1. Related to or involving a Gegenbauer polynomial.
    • Thus, an estimate for 0 < v < 1, can be derived from theorem 6.6.1, by noting that v is an ultraspherical weight function, whose exponent is negative.2008, Daniele Funaro, Polynomial Approximation of Differential Equations, →ISBN, page 116
    • We develop a spectral method for solving univariate singular integral equations over unions of intervals by utilizing Chebyshev and ultraspherical polynomials to reformulate the equations as almost-banded infinite-dimensional systems.2015, Richard Mikael Slevinsky, Sheehan Olver, “A fast and well-conditioned spectral method for singular integral equations”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Origin of ultraspherical

From ultra- + spherical.

Words formed from ultraspherical

  • ultraspherical polynomial

Questions about ultraspherical

What does ultraspherical mean?
Ultraspherical means related to or involving a Gegenbauer polynomial.
What part of speech is ultraspherical?
Ultraspherical is an adjective.

Words near ultraspherical in the dictionary

  1. ultraspecialization
  2. ultraspecialized
  3. ultraspecific
  4. ultraspecificity
  5. ultraspectral
  6. ultraspherical
  7. ultraspinning
  8. ultraspiracle
  9. ultraspiracles
  10. ultraspiritual
  11. ultraspiritualism

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