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The power series method will give solutions only to initial value problems (opposed to boundary value problems), this is not an issue when dealing with linear equations since the solution may turn up multiple linearly independent solutions which may be combined (by superposition) to solve boundary value problems as well. A further restriction ...
The partial sums of a power series are polynomials, the partial sums of the Taylor series of an analytic function are a sequence of converging polynomial approximations to the function at the center, and a converging power series can be seen as a kind of generalized polynomial with infinitely many terms. Conversely, every polynomial is a power ...
The solution () / has a power series starting with the power zero. In a power series starting with the recurrence relation places no restriction on the coefficient for the term , which can be set arbitrarily. If it is set to zero then with this differential equation all the other coefficients will be zero and we obtain the solution 1/z.
An infinite series of any rational function of can be reduced to a finite series of polygamma functions, by use of partial fraction decomposition, [8] as explained here. This fact can also be applied to finite series of rational functions, allowing the result to be computed in constant time even when the series contains a large number of terms.
Alternatively, the equality can be justified by multiplying the power series on the left by 1 − x, and checking that the result is the constant power series 1 (in other words, that all coefficients except the one of x 0 are equal to 0). Moreover, there can be no other power series with this property.
In this case the algebra of formal power series is the total algebra of the monoid of natural numbers over the underlying term ring. [76] If the underlying term ring is a differential algebra, then the algebra of formal power series is also a differential algebra, with differentiation performed term-by-term.
The convergence criteria of the power series then apply, requiring ‖ ‖ to be sufficiently small under the appropriate matrix norm. For more general problems, which cannot be rewritten in such a way that the two matrices commute, the ordering of matrix products produced by repeated application of the Leibniz rule must be tracked.
However, if the series is only known to be divergent, but for reasons other than diverging to infinity, then the claim of the theorem may fail: take, for example, the power series for +. At z = 1 {\\displaystyle z=1} the series is equal to 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + ⋯ , {\\displaystyle 1-1+1-1+\\cdots ,} but 1 1 + 1 = 1 2 . {\\displaystyle {\\tfrac ...