Christoffel–Darboux formula

In mathematics, the Christoffel–Darboux theorem is an identity for a sequence of orthogonal polynomials, introduced by Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1858) and Jean Gaston Darboux (1878). It states that

$\sum _{{j=0}}^{n}{\frac {f_{j}(x)f_{j}(y)}{h_{j}}}={\frac {k_{n}}{h_{n}k_{{n+1}}}}{\frac {f_{n}(y)f_{{n+1}}(x)-f_{{n+1}}(y)f_{n}(x)}{x-y}}$

where f_j(x) is the jth term of a set of orthogonal polynomials of squared norm h_j and leading coefficient k_j.

See also

• Turán's inequalities
• Sturm Chain

References

• Andrews, George E.; Askey, Richard; Roy, Ranjan (1999), Special functions, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, 71, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-62321-6, MR 1688958
• Christoffel, E. B. (1858), "Über die Gaußische Quadratur und eine Verallgemeinerung derselben.", Journal für Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (in German), 55: 61–82, doi:10.1515/crll.1858.55.61, ISSN 0075-4102
• Darboux, Gaston (1878), "Mémoire sur l'approximation des fonctions de très-grands nombres, et sur une classe étendue de développements en série", Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (in French), 4: 5–56, 377–416, JFM 10.0279.01