Some positive trigonometric sums
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Abstract:
Vietoris found an interesting generalization of the classical inequality $\Sigma _{k = 1}^n(\sin k\theta /k) > 0,0 < \theta < \pi$. A simplified proof is given for his inequality and his similar inequality for cosine series. Various new results which follow from these inequalities include improved estimates for the location of the zeros of a class of trigonometric polynomials and new positive sums of ultraspherical polynomials which extend an old inequality of Fejér. Both of Vietoris’ inequalities are special cases of a general problem for Jacobi polynomials, and a summary is given of known results on this problem.References
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- © Copyright 1974 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 187 (1974), 295-307
- MSC: Primary 33A45
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1974-0338481-3
- MathSciNet review: 0338481