Guidance is offered for understanding and using the Legendre transformation and its associated duality among functions and curves. The genesis of this paper was encounters with colleagues and students asking about the...Guidance is offered for understanding and using the Legendre transformation and its associated duality among functions and curves. The genesis of this paper was encounters with colleagues and students asking about the transformation. A main feature is simplicity of exposition, while keeping in mind the purpose or application for using the transformation.展开更多
UE-Brzier (unified and extended Brzier) basis is the unified form of Brzier-like bases, including polynomial Brzier basis, trigonometric polynomial and hyperbolic polynomial Brzier basis. Similar to the original Brz...UE-Brzier (unified and extended Brzier) basis is the unified form of Brzier-like bases, including polynomial Brzier basis, trigonometric polynomial and hyperbolic polynomial Brzier basis. Similar to the original Brzier-like bases, UE-Brzier basis func-tions are not orthogonal. In this paper, a group of orthogonal basis is constructed based on UE-Brzier basis. The transformation matrices between UE-Brzier basis and the proposed orthogonal basis are also solved.展开更多
文摘Guidance is offered for understanding and using the Legendre transformation and its associated duality among functions and curves. The genesis of this paper was encounters with colleagues and students asking about the transformation. A main feature is simplicity of exposition, while keeping in mind the purpose or application for using the transformation.
基金Supported by National Science Foundation of China(No.60904070,61272032)the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(No.LY12F02002,Y1111101)
文摘UE-Brzier (unified and extended Brzier) basis is the unified form of Brzier-like bases, including polynomial Brzier basis, trigonometric polynomial and hyperbolic polynomial Brzier basis. Similar to the original Brzier-like bases, UE-Brzier basis func-tions are not orthogonal. In this paper, a group of orthogonal basis is constructed based on UE-Brzier basis. The transformation matrices between UE-Brzier basis and the proposed orthogonal basis are also solved.