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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Dual basis and Taylor series

In this essay, I will introduce the connection between the Dual basis and the Taylor series(For real analytic function)

Review the definition of a real analytic function,

it is a kind of function on R, which can be written as convergence power series at an open set DR

And the Dual basis is elements of dual space for a vector space V

Give a basis for V like v1,v2,v3,...vn

we can define dual basis like ψi(vj)={1,i=j0,ij

witch gives the coordinate of the vector under the basis vector.

For example, vV,v=c1v1+c2v2+c3v3+...cnvn

ψi(v)=ψ(c1v1+c2v2+c3v3+...cnvn)=ciψi(v1)+c2ψ(v2)+....ciψ(vi)+cnψi(vn)=ci

And actually, it is how we get the Matrix representation for Linear Map.

aij=ψiT(vj), and you can also consider the connection between dual basis, determinate and inverse matrix, and coordinate change...

Now we can consider a linear space P

the basis is 1,x,x2,x3,...xn,...

real analytic function space A is a subspace of P

and the dual basis is (ddx)0,(ddx)1,12!(ddx)2,13!(ddx)3...(derivative at 0)

So consider a function fA

f(x)=c0+c1x+c2x2+c3x3+...

Using the dual basis, we can get ci=fn(0)n!

You can generalize the idea by considering (xa)i,iN

You can think of The Fourier series in the same way. The dual basis is given by inner product and orthogonal basis.

But using the beautiful approach, we can not get the general Taylor series.

For a function f(x):(a,b)R, f(x) can be derivative n+1 times, we can use integral by part

f(x)=f(x0)+f(x)f(x0)=f(x0)+x0xf(t)d(tx)

=f(x0)x0xf(t)d(xt)=f(x0)f(t)(xt)|x0x12x0xf(x)d(xt)

...

Finally, you can get f(x)=i=0nf(i)(x0)xnn!+Rn(x),Rn(x)=1n!x0xf(n+1)(t)(xt)ndx

 

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