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Exercise 15.4.14
The function is analytic at and hence has a power series expansion.
- (a)
- In Exercise 3 of Section 15.2, you used to show that . Use these two identities to prove by induction that for every , there is a polynomial such that equals if is even and if is odd.
- (b)
- Use part (a) to prove that the coefficients of the power series expansion of at lie in .
- (c)
- Use part (b) and to show that .
- (c)
- Show that , and .
Answers
Proof. (a) , thus , where .
Now assume that the property holds for all integers , where .
If is even, there is a polynomial such that
Then is odd, and, for all such that both members are defined,
where , so that the property holds for if is odd.
If is odd, there is a polynomial such that
Then is even. Using and , we obtain
where . The induction is done.
To resume, for each integer , there is a polynomial such that
where
(b) The power series expansion of at is
where if is even, and if is odd ( is the radius of convergence, which is positive). Thus for all , and .
The coefficients of the power series expansion of at lie in . (c) We write the power series expansion of at under the form
Then
and
The identity , and the unicity of the power series expansion of at gives, for all ,
If , then , which implies . Thus if . If we write , then
(d) Here
This gives
"Lazy day, Sunday afternoon", I use a small program to compute .
R.<u> = ZZ[’u’] def G(n): G0 = u for k in range(n): if k % 2 == 0: G0 = G0.diff() else: G0 = G0.diff()*(1-u^4)-2*u^3*G0 return G0 G(5)(0)/5.factorial(), G(9)(0)/9.factorial()
So
With more effort,
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