Named essentially after their close relationship with the modified Bessel function K?(z) of second kind, which is known also as Macdonald (or, a slightly different definition, Basset function), so-called polynomials yn(x) and generalized yn(x;?,?) stemmed naturally in some systematic investigations classical wave equation spherical polar coordinates. Our main purpose this invited survey-cum-exp...

The main result of this paper is to calculate the Batalin-Vilkovisky structure of HH∗(C∗(KPn;R);C∗(KPn;R)) for K = C andH, and R = Z and any field; and shows that in the special case when M = CP 1 = S2, and R = Z, this structure can not be identified with the BV-structure of H∗(LS 2;Z) computed by Luc Memichi in [16]. However, the induced Gerstenhaber structures are still identified in this cas...

An identity by Chaundy and Bullard writes 1/(1− x)n (n = 1,2, . . .) as a sum of two truncated binomial series. In a paper which appeared in 2008 in Indag. Math. the authors surveyed many aspects of this identity. In the present paper we discuss much earlier occurrences of this identity in works by Hering (1868), de Moivre (1738) and de Montmort (1713). A relationship with Krawtchouk polynomial...

A numerical method to solve Lane-Emden equations as singular initial value problems is presented in this work. This method is based on the replacement of unknown functions through a truncated series of hybrid of block-pulse functions and Chebyshev polynomials. The collocation method transforms the differential equation into a system of algebraic equations. It also has application in a wide area...

Abstract. In this paper, we propose efficient algorithms for approximating particular solutions of second and fourth order elliptic equations. The approximation of the particular solution by a truncated series of Chebyshev polynomials and the satisfaction of the differential equation lead to upper triangular block systems, each block being an upper triangular system. These systems can be solved...

In this work, an effective numerical method is developed to solve a class of singular boundary value problems arising in various physical models by using the improved differential transform method (IDTM). The IDTM applies the Adomian polynomials to handle the differential transforms of the nonlinearities arising in the given differential equation. The relation between the Adomian polynomials of...