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- From: fc03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Frederick W. Chapman)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Iteration problem
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.204704.154683@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 20:47:04 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- In article <4578@balrog.ctron.com>, wilson@ctron.com (David Wilson) writes:
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- > (2) h (x) = 2 cosh(p arccosh(x/2)).
- > p
- >
- >It turns out that for integer p, hp is a polynomial.
-
- [description of properties of h_p deleted]
-
- The h_p's sure are polynomials for integer p... the Tchebyshev polynomials
- (more or less)! More precisely,
-
- h_p (x) = 2 T_p (x/2)
-
- where T_p is the Tchebyshev polynomial of degree p. The properties you
- discovered for the h_p's can also be derived from similar properties of the
- T_p's. In fact, there is an entire book on the wonderful properties of
- Tchebyshev polynomials, published recently by Wiley Interscience, if memory
- serves me.
-
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