%% 8. Convergence for analytic functions ATAPformats %% % % Suppose $f$ is not just $k$ times differentiable but infinitely % differentiable and in fact analytic on $[-1,1]$. (Recall that this means % that for any $s\in [-1,1]$, $f$ has a Taylor series about $s$ that % converges to $f$ in a neighborhood of $s$.) Then without any further % assumptions we may conclude that the Chebyshev projections and % interpolants converge {\bf geometrically}, that is, at the rate % $O(C^{-n})$ for some constant $C>1$. This means the errors will look % like straight lines (or better) on a semilog scale rather than a loglog % scale. This kind of connection was first announced by Bernstein in 1911, % who showed that the best approximations to a function $f$ on $[-1,1]$ % converge geometrically as $n\to\infty$ if and only if $f$ is analytic % [Bernstein 1911 \& 1912{\sc b}]. % %% % For example, for Chebyshev interpolants of the function $(1+25x^2)^{-1}$, % known as the _Runge function_ (Chapter 13), we get steady geometric % convergence down to the level of rounding errors: %% % \vskip -2em x = chebfun('x'); f = 1./(1+25*x.^2); nn = 0:10:200; ee = 0*nn; for j = 1:length(nn) n = nn(j); fn = chebfun(f,n+1); ee(j) = norm(f-fn,inf); end hold off, semilogy(nn,ee,'.'), grid on, axis([0 200 1e-17 10]) FS = 'fontsize'; title(['Geometric convergence of Chebyshev ' ... ' interpolants -- analytic function'],FS,9) %% % \vskip 1pt %% % If $f$ is analytic not just on $[-1,1]$ but in the whole complex % plane---such a function is said to be _entire_---then the convergence is % even faster than geometric. Here, for the function $\cos(20x)$, the dots % are not approaching a fixed straight line but a curve that gets steeper % as $n$ increases, until rounding errors cut off the progress. %% % \vskip -2em f = cos(20*x); nn = 0:2:60; ee = 0*nn; for j = 1:length(nn) n = nn(j); fn = chebfun(f,n+1); ee(j) = norm(f-fn,inf); end semilogy(nn,ee,'.'), grid on, axis([0 60 1e-16 100]) title('Convergence of Chebyshev interpolants -- entire function',FS,9) %% % \vskip 1pt %% % % There are elegant theorems that explain these effects. If $f$ is analytic % on $[-1,1]$, then it can be analytically continued to a neighborhood of % $[-1,1]$ in the complex plane. (The idea of analytic continuation is % explained in complex variables textbooks; see also Chapter 28.) The % bigger the neighborhood, the faster the convergence. In particular, for % polynomial approximations, the neighborhoods that matter are the regions % in the complex plane bounded by ellipses with foci at $-1$ and $1$, % known as {\em Bernstein ellipses} % [Bernstein 1912{\sc b}, 1912{\sc c} \& % 1914{\sc a}]. It is easy to plot these curves: pick a number $\rho>1$ % and plot the image in the complex $x$-plane of the circle of radius % $\rho$ in the $z$-plane under the Joukowsky map $x = (z+z^{-1})/2$. We % let $E_\rho$ denote the open region bounded by this ellipse. Here, for % example, are the Bernstein ellipses corresponding to the parameters $\rho % = 1.1,1.2,\dots,2$: % %% % \vskip -2em z = exp(2i*pi*x); for rho = 1.1:0.1:2 e = (rho*z+(rho*z).^(-1))/2; plot(e), hold on end ylim([-.9 .9]), axis equal title('Bernstein ellipses for \rho = 1.1, 1.2, ..., 2',FS,9) %% % \vskip 1pt %% % It is not hard to verify that the length of the semimajor axis of % $E_\rho$ plus the length of the semiminor axis is equal to $\rho$ % (Exercise 8.1). %% % Here is the basic bound on Chebyshev coefficients of analytic functions % from which many other things follow. It first appeared in Section 61 of % [Bernstein 1912b]. %% % \em % {\bf Theorem 8.1. Chebyshev coefficients of analytic functions.} Let a % function $f$ analytic in $[-1,1]$ be analytically continuable to the open % Bernstein ellipse $E_\rho$, where it satisfies $|f(x)|\le M$ for some % $M$. Then its Chebyshev coefficients satisfy $|a_0| \le M$ and % $$ | a_k | \le 2M\rho^{-k},\quad k\ge 1. \eqno (8.1) $$ % \vspace{0em} %% % _Proof._ As in the proofs of Theorems 3.1, 4.1, and 7.1, we make use of % the transplantation from $f(x)$ and $T_k(x)$ on $[-1,1]$ in the $x$-plane % to $F(z)$ and $(z^k + z^{-k})/2$ on the unit circle in the $z$-plane, % with $x = (z+z^{-1})/2$ and $F(z) = F(z^{-1}) = f(x)$. The ellipse % $E_\rho$ in the $x$-plane corresponds under this formula in a 1-to-2 % fashion to the annulus $\rho^{-1} < |z| < \rho$ in the $z$-plane. By % this we mean that for each $x$ in $E_\rho\backslash [-1,1]$ there are two % corresponding values of $z$ which are inverses of one another, and both % the circles $|z|=\rho$ and $|z|=\rho^{-1}$ map onto the ellipse itself. % (We can no longer use the formula $x = \hbox{Re}\,z$, which is valid only % for $|z|=1$.) The first thing to note is that if $f$ is analytic in the % ellipse, then $F$ is analytic in the annulus since it is the composition % of the two analytic functions $z \mapsto (z+z^{-1})/2$ and $x \mapsto % f(x)$. Now we make use of the contour integral formula (3.12), % $$ a_k = {1\over\pi i}\int_{|z|=1}z^{-1-k}F(z)\,dz, $$ % with $\pi i$ replaced by $2\pi i$ for $k=0$. Suppose for a moment that % $F$ is analytic not just in the annulus but in its closure $\rho^{-1} \le % |z| \le \rho$. Then we can expand the contour to $|z|=\rho$ without % changing the value of the integral, giving % $$ a_k= {1\over\pi i}\int_{|z|=\rho}z^{-1-k}F(z)\,dz, $$ % again with $\pi i$ replaced by $2\pi i$ for $k=0$. Since the % circumference is $2\pi \rho$ and $|F(z)| \le M$, the required bound now % follows from an elementary estimate. If $F$ is analytic only in the open % annulus, we can move the contour to $|z|=s$ for any $s<\rho$, leading to % the same bound for any $s<\rho$ and hence also for $s=\rho$. % $~\hbox{\vrule width 2.5pt depth 2.5 pt height 3.5 pt}$ %% % Here are two of the consequences of Theorem 8.1. Equation (8.2) first % appeared in [Bernstein 1912b, Sec. 61]. I do not know where equation % (8.3) may have appeared, though similar slightly weaker bounds can be % found in (4.13) and (4.16) of [Tadmor 1986]. For a generalization of % (8.3) to interpolation in other point sets with the same asymptotic % distribution as Chebyshev points, see Theorem 12.1. %% % \em % {\bf Theorem 8.2. Convergence for analytic functions.} % If $f$ has the properties of Theorem $8.1$, then for % each $n\ge 0$ its Chebyshev projections satisfy % $$ \| f - f_n \| \le {2M\rho^{-n}\over \rho - 1} \eqno (8.2) $$ % and its Chebyshev interpolants satisfy % $$ \| f - p_n \| \le {4M\rho^{-n}\over \rho - 1}. \eqno (8.3) $$ % \vspace{-1.5em} %% % _Proof._ Equation (8.2) follows from Theorem 8.1 and (4.8), % and (8.3) follows from Theorem 8.1 and (4.9). % $~\hbox{\vrule width 2.5pt depth 2.5 pt height 3.5 pt}$ %% % We can apply Theorem 8.2 directly if $f$ is analytic and bounded in % $E_\rho$. If it is analytic but unbounded in $E_\rho$, then it will be % analytic and bounded in $E_s$ for any $s<\rho$, so we still get % convergence at the rate $O(s^{-n})$ for any $s<\rho$. If it is unbounded % in $E_\rho$ but the only singularities on the ellipse are simple poles, % then we get convergence at the rate $O(\kern .5pt\rho^{-n})$ after all % (Exercise 8.15). %% % % Before applying Theorem 8.2 to a couple of examples, it will be % convenient to note formulas for $\rho$ in two common special cases. % Suppose $f$ has its first singularity at a real value $x_0 = \pm \alpha$ % for some $\alpha>1$. Then the corresponding ellipse parameter is % $$ \rho = \alpha + \sqrt{\alpha^2-1} \quad \hbox{(real singularity at $x = \pm \alpha$).} % \eqno (8.4) $$ % Or suppose that the first singularity is at the pure imaginary value % $x_0 = \pm i\beta$ for some $\beta>0$. Then we have % $$ \rho = \beta + \sqrt{\beta^2+1} \quad \hbox{(imaginary singularity at $x = \pm i\beta$).} % \eqno (8.5) $$ % %% % For example, the Runge function $(1+25x^2)^{-1}$ considered above has % poles at $\pm i/5$. By (8.5), the corresponding value of $\rho$ is % $(1+\sqrt{26}\kern .7pt )/5 \approx 1.220$, and the errors in Chebyshev % interpolation match this rate beautifully: %% % \vskip -2em f = 1./(1+25*x.^2); nn = 0:10:200; ee = 0*nn; for j = 1:length(nn) n = nn(j); fn = chebfun(f,n+1); ee(j) = norm(f-fn,inf); end rho = (1+sqrt(26))/5; hold off, semilogy(nn,rho.^(-nn),'-r') hold on, semilogy(nn,ee,'.'), grid on, axis([0 200 1e-17 10]) title('Geometric convergence for the Runge function',FS,9) %% % \vskip 1pt %% % Here is a more extreme but entirely analogous example: $\tanh(50 \pi x)$, % with poles at $\pm 0.01i$. These poles are so close to $[-1,1]$ that the % convergence is much slower, but it is still robust. The only difference % in this code segment is that |norm(f-fn,inf)|, a relatively slow Chebfun % operation that depends on finding zeros of the derivative of |f-fn|, has % been replaced by the default 2-norm |norm(f-fn)|, which is quick. This % makes little difference to the figure, as the exponential decay rates are % the same. (In the $\infty$-norm, the dots in the figure would appear % just above the red line instead of just below it.) %% % \vskip -2em f = tanh(50*pi*x); nn = 0:200:4000; ee = 0*nn; for j = 1:length(nn) n = nn(j); fn = chebfun(f,n+1); ee(j) = norm(f-fn); end rho = (1+sqrt(10001))/100; hold off, semilogy(nn,rho.^(-nn),'-r') hold on, semilogy(nn,ee,'.') grid on, axis([0 4000 1e-16 10]) title(['Geometric convergence for a function ' ... 'analytic in a narrow region'],FS,9) %% % \vskip 1pt %% % For an example with a real singularity, the function $\sqrt{2-x}$ has a % branch point at $x=2$, corresponding by (8.4) to $\rho = 2+\sqrt{3}$. % Again we see a good match, with the curve gradually bending over to the % expected slope as $n\to\infty$. %% % \vskip -2em f = sqrt(2-x); nn = 0:30; ee = 0*nn; for j = 1:length(nn) n = nn(j); fn = chebfun(f,n+1); ee(j) = norm(f-fn,inf); end rho = 2+sqrt(3); hold off, semilogy(nn,rho.^(-nn),'-r') hold on, semilogy(nn,ee,'.') grid on, axis([0 30 1e-17 10]) title(['Geometric convergence for an analytic ' ... 'function with a branch point'],FS,9) %% % \vskip 1pt %% % We now derive an elegant converse of Theorem 8.2, also due to Bernstein % [1912b, Section 9]. The converse is not quite exact: Theorem 8.2 assumes % analyticity and boundedness in $E_\rho$, whereas the conclusion of % Theorem 8.3 is analyticity but not necessarily boundedness (Exercise 8.15). %% % *Theorem 8.3. Converse of Theorem 8.2.* _Suppose $f$ is a function on % $[-1,1]$ for which there exist polynomial approximations $\{q_n\}$ % satisfying_ % $$ \| f - q_n \| \le C\rho^{-n}, \quad n\ge 0 $$ % _for some constants $\rho>1$ and $C>0$. Then $f$ can be analytically % continued to an analytic function in the open Bernstein ellipse_ % $E_{\rho}$. %% % _Proof._ The assumption implies that the polynomials $\{q_n\}$ satisfy % $\|q_n-q_{n-1}\|\le 2\kern .7pt C\kern .4pt \rho^{1-n}$ on $[-1,1]$. % Since $q_n-q_{n-1}\in {\cal P}_n$, it can be shown that this implies % $\|q_n - q_{n-1}\|_{E_s} \le 2\, C s^n \rho^{1-n} $ for any $s>1$, where % $\|\cdot\|_{E_s}$ is the supremum norm on the $s$-ellipse $E_s$. (This % estimate is one of _Bernstein's inequalities,_ from Section 9 of % [Bernstein 1912b]; see Exercise 8.6.) For $s<\rho$, this gives us a % representation for $f$ in $E_s$ as a series of analytic functions, $$ f = % q_0 + (q_1-q_0) + (q_2-q_1) + \cdots , $$ which is uniformly convergent % according to the Weierstrass M-test. According to another well-known % theorem of Weierstrass, this implies that the limit is a bounded analytic % function [Ahlfors 1953, Markushevich 1985]. Since this is true for any % $s<\rho$, the analyticity applies throughout $E_\rho$. % $~\hbox{\vrule width 2.5pt depth 2.5 pt height 3.5 pt}$ %% % Note that Theorem 8.2 and 8.3 together establish a simple fact, sometimes % known as _Bernstein's theorem_: a function defined on $[-1,1]$ can be % approximated by polynomials with geometric accuracy if and only if it is % analytic. (See also Exercise 8.11 and [Bagby & Levenberg 1993].) %% % The term ``Bernstein ellipse'' refers to any ellipse in the complex plane % with foci $\{-1,1\}$, and if $f$ is a function analytic on $[-1,1]$, the % bounds of Theorems 8.1 and 8.2 apply for any Bernstein ellipse inside % which $f$ is analytic and bounded. If there is a largest ellipse inside % which $f$ is analytic, then one might choose to say that this was ``the'' % Bernstein ellipse for $f$, but this might not always be the ellipse that % gives the most useful bound, and if $f$ is entire, then there is no % largest ellipse at all (Exercise 8.3). %% % Chebfun computations, however, suggest a practical way to single out a % special Bernstein ellipse associated with a given function $f$. The % _Chebfun ellipse_ for $f$ is the Bernstein ellipse whose parameter $\rho$ % satisfies the condition % $$ \rho^{-n} = \varepsilon, \eqno (8.6) $$ % where % $\varepsilon$ is the tolerance used by the Chebfun constructor (normally % $2^{-52}$) and $n$ is the degree of the polynomial chosen by Chebfun to % resolve $f$. The command |chebellipseplot| plots these Chebfun % ellipses. Thus for $f(x) = 1/(1+25x^2)$, for example, the Chebfun ellipse % comes very close to passing through the poles at $\pm 0.2i$: %% % \vskip -2em f = chebfun('1./(1+25*x.^2)'); clf, chebellipseplot(f,'linewidth',1) hold on, plot([.2i -.2i],'xr','markersize',12) axis equal, ylim(.5*[-1 1]), grid on title('Chebfun ellipse for 1/(1+25x^2)',FS,9) %% % \vskip 1pt %% % For the entire function $f(x) = \exp(-200x^2)$, the Chebfun ellipse has % much the same shape although now $f$ has no singularities: %% % \vskip -2em f = chebfun('exp(-200*x.^2)'); hold off, chebellipseplot(f,'linewidth',1) axis equal, ylim(.5*[-1 1]), grid on title('Chebfun ellipse for exp(-200x^2)',FS,9) %% % \vskip 1pt %% % % \begin{displaymath} % \framebox[4.7in][c]{\parbox{4.5in}{\vspace{2pt}\sl % {\sc Summary of Chapter 8.} If $f$ is analytic, its Chebyshev % coefficients $\{a_k\}$ decrease geometrically. In particular, if $f$ is % analytic with $|f(x)| \le M$ in the Bernstein $\rho$-ellipse about % $[-1,1]$, then $|a_k|\le 2M\rho^{-k}$. It follows that the degree $n$ % Chebyshev projection and interpolant of $f$ have accuracy % $O(M\rho^{-n})$.\vspace{2pt}}} % \end{displaymath} % %% % \smallskip\small\parskip=2pt % {\bf Exercise 8.1. Bernstein ellipses.} Verify that for any $\rho >1$, % the length of the % semiminor axis plus the length of the semimajor axis of the Bernstein % ellipse $E_\rho$ is equal to $\rho$. % \par % {\bf Exercise 8.2. A Chebyshev series.} % With {\tt x = chebfun('x')}, execute the command % {\tt chebpolyplot(sin(100*(x-.1))+.01*tanh(20*x))}. Explain the various % features of the resulting plot as quantitatively as you can. % \par % {\bf Exercise 8.3. Interpolation of an entire function.} The % function $f(x) = \exp(-x^2)$ is analytic throughout the complex $x$-plane, % so Theorem 8.2 can be applied for any % value of the parameter $\rho>1$. % Produce a semilog plot of $\|f-p_n\|$ as a function of $n$ % together with lines corresponding to the upper bound of the theorem for % $\rho = 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2, 3, 5, 8$. Be sure to use the % right value of $M$ in each case. How well do your bounds fit the data? % \par % {\bf Exercise 8.4. Convergence rates for different functions.} % Based on the theorems of this chapter, what can you say about % the convergence as $n\to\infty$ of the Chebyshev interpolants to % (a) $\tan(x)$, % (b) $\tanh(x)$, % (c) $\log((x+3)/4)/(x-1)$, % (d) $\int_{-1}^x \cos(t^2)\kern 1pt dt$, % (e) $\tan(\tan(x))$, % (f) $(1+x) \log(1+x)\,$? % In each case compare theoretical bounds with numerically computed % results. Which is the case that converges much faster than the % theorems predict? Can you speculate as to why? % \par % {\bf Exercise 8.5. Accuracy of approximations in the complex plane.} Let % $p$ be the chebfun for $f(x) = \exp(-200x^2)$ and plot contour lines in % the complex $x$-plane corresponding to $|f(x) - p(x)| = 10^{-2}, 10^{-4}, % \dots, 10^{-14}$. How do these curves compare to the Bernstein ellipses % corresponding to parameters $\rho$ satisfying $\rho^{-n} = \varepsilon % \times \{ 10^2, 10^4, \dots , 10^{14}\}$, where $\varepsilon$ is the % Chebfun constructor tolerance $2^{-52}\kern 1pt$? % \par % {\bf Exercise 8.6. Proof of Bernstein inequality.} Prove Bernstein's % inequality used in the proof of Theorem 8.3: if $p$ is a polynomial of % degree $d$, then $\|\kern .7pt p\|_{E_\rho} \le \rho^d \kern 1pt \|\kern % .7pt p\|$, where $\|\cdot \|_{E_\rho}$ is the $\infty$-norm over the % $\rho$-ellipse and $\|\cdot\|$ is the $\infty$-norm over $[-1,1]$. (Hint: % Show that if the branch cut is taken to be the unit interval $[-1,1]$, % the function $q(z) = p(z)/(z+(z^2-1)^{1/2})^d$ is analytic throughout the % region consisting of the complex plane plus the point $z=\infty$ minus % $[-1,1]$. Apply the maximum modulus principle.) % \par % {\bf Exercise 8.7. Absolute value function.} % The function $|x-i|$ is analytic for $x\in [-1,1]$. % This means it can be analytically continued to an analytic % function $f(x)$ in a neighborhood of $[-1,1]$ in the complex $x$-plane. % The formula $|x-i|$ itself does not define an analytic function % in any complex neighborhood. Find another formula for $f$ that does, % and use it to explain what singularities $f$ has in the complex plane. % \par % {\bf Exercise 8.8. Chebyshev polynomials on the Bernstein ellipse.} % Show that for any $\rho>1$ and any $z$ on the boundary of the % ellipse $E_\rho$ in the complex $x$-plane, % $\lim_{n\to\infty} |T_n(x)|^{1/n} = \rho$. % \par % {\bf Exercise 8.9. You can't judge smoothness by eye.} % Define $f(x) = 2+\sin(50x)$ and $g(x) = f(x)^{1.0001}$ and % construct chebfuns for these functions on $[-1,1]$. What are % their lengths? Explain this effect quantitatively % using the theorems of this chapter. % \par % {\bf Exercise 8.10. Convergence of conjugate gradient iteration.} % Suppose we wish to approximate $f(x) = x^{-1}$ on the interval $[m,M]$ % with $0 < m1$ with the only singularities % on the ellipse itself being simple poles. Show that % $\|f-f_n\|$ and $\|f-p_n\|$ are of size $O(\kern .5pt\rho^{-n})$ as $n\to\infty$. % \par