chebyshev


chebyshev, a FORTRAN90 code which constructs the Chebyshev interpolant to a function.

Note that the user is not free to choose the interpolation points. Instead, the function f(x) will be evaluated at points chosen by the algorithm. In the standard case, in which the interpolation interval is [-1,+1], these points will be the zeros of the Chebyshev polynomial of order N. However, the algorithm can also be applied to an interval of the form [a,b], in which case the evaluation points are linearly mapped from [-1,+1].

The resulting interpolant is defined by a set of N coefficients c(), and has the form:

        C(f)(x) = sum ( 1 <= i <= n ) c(i) T(i-1,x) - 0.5 * c(1)
      
where T(i-1,x) is the (i-1)-th Chebyshev polynomial.

Within the interval [-1,+1], or the generalized interval [a,b], the interpolant actually remains bounded by the sum of the absolute values of the coefficients c(). It is therefore common to use Chebyshev interpolants as approximating functions over a given interval.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

chebyshev is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.

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Reference:

  1. Roger Broucke,
    Algorithm 446: Ten Subroutines for the Manipulation of Chebyshev Series,
    Communications of the ACM,
    Volume 16, Number 4, April 1973, pages 254-256.
  2. Philip Davis,
    Interpolation and Approximation,
    Dover, 1975,
    ISBN: 0-486-62495-1,
    LC: QA221.D33
  3. William Press, Brian Flannery, Saul Teukolsky, William Vetterling,
    Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing,
    Cambridge University Press, 1988,
    ISBN: 0-521-35465-X,
    LC: QA76.73.C15N865.

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Last revised on 07 September 2021.