On constructing new expansions of functions using linear operators

• Authors: Mohammad Masjed-Jamei
• Venue: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
• Year: 2010

Let T,U be two linear operators mapped onto the function f such that U(T(f))=f, but T(U(f))f. In this paper, we first obtain the expansion of functions T(U(f)) and U(T(f)) in a general case. Then, we introduce four special examples of the derived expansions. First example is a combination of the Fourier trigonometric expansion with the Taylor expansion and the second example is a mixed combination of orthogonal polynomial expansions with respect to the defined linear operators T and U. In the third example, we apply the basic expansion U(T(f))=f(x) to explicitly compute some inverse integral transforms, particularly the inverse Laplace transform. And in the last example, a mixed combination of Taylor expansions is presented. A separate section is also allocated to discuss the convergence of the basic expansions T(U(f)) and U(T(f)).