Spurious poles in Padé approximation

Spurious poles in Pad e approximation

In the theory of Pad e approximation locally uniform convergence has been proved only for special classes of functions: for much larger classes convergence in capacity has been shown to hold true. The reason for one type of convergence to hold true, but the other one not, can be found in poles of the approximants that may occur apparently anywhere in the complex plane. Because of their unwanted...

On Padé Approximation of Some Practical Functions

Eliminating spurious poles from gauge-theoretic amplitudes

This note addresses the problem of spurious poles in gauge-theoretic scattering amplitudes. New twistor coordinates for the momenta are introduced, based on the concept of dual conformal invariance. The cancellation of spurious poles for a class of NMHV amplitudes is greatly simplified in these coordinates. The poles are eliminated altogether by defining a new type of twistor integral, dual to ...

Robust Padé Approximation via SVD

Padé approximation is considered from the point of view of robust methods of numerical linear algebra, in particular the singular value decomposition. This leads to an algorithm for practical computation that bypasses most problems of solution of nearly-singular systems and spurious pole-zero pairs caused by rounding errors; a Matlab code is provided. The success of this algorithm suggests that...

Time Stepping Via One-Dimensional Padé Approximation

The numerical solution of time-dependent ordinary and partial differential equations presents a number of well known difficulties—including, possibly, severe restrictions on time-step sizes for stability in explicit procedures, as well as need for solution of challenging, generally nonlinear systems of equations in implicit schemes. In this note we introduce a novel class of explicit methods ba...