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Searching for an asymptotic to exp[0.5] - tommy1729 - 05/07/2014 Im searching for an asymptotic to exp[0.5](x). This is the continuation of the thread http://math.eretrandre.org/tetrationforum/showthread.php?tid=854 where I and sheldon have gone off topic from the OP. Thus we look for a function with " growth " = 0.5. Or at least growth between 0 and 1. Notice f^[n](x) = exp^[m](a^n ln^[m](x)) is not a solution for any m,a. They all have growth 0. 2 candidates remain : f1(z) = sum z^n/(n^2)! f2(z) = ln(z)^e^ln^[3](z)^e^ln^[5]^e^... We should investigate those perhaps ? regards tommy1729 RE: Searching for an asymptotic to exp[0.5] - sheldonison - 05/08/2014 (05/07/2014, 12:22 PM)tommy1729 Wrote: Im searching for an asymptotic to exp[0.5](x). This problem will probably keep me occupied for a long time. I need to work on tools for figuring out the growth from the Taylor series, where growth is the limit of slog(f^n(x0))/n (I have some ideas). I'm also thinking about what the Taylor series for an entire pseudo half iterate might look like, and what bounds can be put on the Taylor series coefficients. The pseudo half iterate of exp should converge with far fewer Taylor series terms than exp(z). half(10000)~=1E22, which is only 10000^5.5 Anyway, I expect this problem will keep me occupied for a long time, but that also means it might take awhile to make any real progress... edit: Emperical testing suggests that an "entire" pseudo half iterate is very likely possible, with all positive Taylor series coefficients at z=0, and a probable growth value of 0.5, as defined by the "growth" equation. I can post the empirical results for the first 100 derivatives of such a conjectured asymptotic solution later. Each derivative is bounded to a maximum value by a particular value of half(z). I can post more later; still working on how to formalize the definition of the conjectured Taylor series. - Sheldon RE: Searching for an asymptotic to exp[0.5] - tommy1729 - 05/09/2014 Perhaps this is trivial to Sheldon but some more comments. Let p(x) be a polynomial. The growth of f(x) and the growth of f(x) + p(x) are equal. This could be intresting. So the half-iterate of exp(x) and exp(x)+1 have the same growth rate. SO growth works a bit like the concept of convergeance of a limit. ONLY the " tail " of the expression matters. Just like conv(lim a0 + a1 + a2 + a3 + ...) = conv(lim a2 + a3 + ...). Hence when trying to find an asymptotic to exp^[0.5] we could as well use exp(x)-1+x = 0 + 2x + x^2/2 + ... . This implies that we can play with the fixpoints and dummy variables. So we can investigate C0 + C1 x + C2 x^2 + x^3/3! + x^4/4! + ... I only see advantages for this. However one disadvantage I see is that this might show that trying to find the half-iterate of exp(x) by taking the half-iterate of its truncated Taylor might not be such a good idea for studying the half-iterate for large x ( works fine for small x under some conditions ). However thats a bit of topic here, but worth mentioning imho. A further implication is that we can arrive at usefull results if we set f(0)=0. I mean C0 + C1 x + C2 x^2 + x^3/3! + x^4/4! + ... with C0 = 0 and C1 > 1. This allows us to use stuff like carleman matrices for example. although C1,C2 appear as variables , 2 variables ( or finite ) are quite easy too handle. This bring me to a few other remarks. f(x) and f(a x) also have the same growth. This implies that the Taylor coefficients t_n and a^n t_n imply the same growth rate !! ( Many conjectures about what gives an equal growth rate are possible , but its not immediate which ones are the most usefull ) These were algebraic ideas , but some calculus ideas occur too : For instance use the Laplace transform instead of a Taylor series. ( with x = exp(-s) ) Then the theorems involving that transform can be used too ! For instance the Laplace transform of f ' (x) is very intresting. It suggests that G(x) and G(x) * (ln(x)^k) have the same growth even when iterated. HOWEVER one thing seems to put us on our feet again. We want all derivatives to be nonnegative. Its not clear those dummy variables can provide us with a solution that is both entire and has all Taylor coefficients nonnegative. Why positive ? Because then the Taylor is dominated by the largest coefficients. Compare with exp vs 2sinh. The zero's coefficients of 2sinh do not effect its growth much. Because neither has negative coefficients ! This positivity removes unnessary up and down jumps in the sizes of the coefficients. So they are easier to approximate. Also the positivity gives us insight about the functions values at complex imput... because of absolute convergeance ! I assume Sheldon was aware of all that. But that information needed to be shared for all. regards tommy1729 RE: Searching for an asymptotic to exp[0.5] - sheldonison - 05/10/2014 (05/08/2014, 04:25 PM)sheldonison Wrote:(05/07/2014, 12:22 PM)tommy1729 Wrote: Im searching for an asymptotic to exp[0.5](x)....Emperical testing suggests that an "entire" pseudo half iterate is very likely possible, with all positive Taylor series coefficients at z=0, and a probable growth value of 0.5, as defined by the "growth" equation. .... Each derivative is bounded to a maximum value by a particular value of half(z)....still working on how to formalize the definition of the conjectured Taylor series. Here, for a_n, factorial is extended to the reals with the gamma(n+1) function. I do not know what the limiting equation for a_n is as n gets arbitrarily large. These values were generated numerically. With 150 Taylor series terms, this series can accurately generate the half iterate for numbers up to 10^12. Code: a_1= 1.289368074687 One can compare this to Tommy's hypothetical candidate (quote below), and see that the (n^2)! in the denominator is growing much quicker than necessary, as compared to the empirical results. But one can also see that the denominator in the Taylor series coefficients for this asymptotic half iterate grow much faster than for the exp(z). The conjecture is as n gets arbitrarily large, for any z0>1, the slog(f^n(z0))/n~=0.5, and therefore this would be an entire function with half exponential growth. tommy1729 Wrote:f1(z) = sum z^n/(n^2)! The asymptotic half iterate function is defined such that all Taylor series coefficients are positive, and that the function is always less than but approaching the Kneser half iterate, for real(z)>0. The construction for the Taylor series I used is a somewhat complicated two stage process; I'll post more later. But the first stage is to note that if the Taylor series terms are all positive, than no individual Taylor series term can be larger than the desired sum, so we require that, Here are some example of calculations using this assymptotic half Taylor series, as compared to the Kneser half iterate. It would probably make sense to set a_0 of the half iterate to sexp(-0.5), which is the half iterate of 0. I will half to generate a complex plan plot for this half iterate... z, assymptotic_half, Kneser_half 0 0 0.4985632879411 1 1.126644950749 1.646354233751 10 58.93202104249 61.48617436731 100 187646.5930113 192708.5721853 1000 425414280682.2 432750850493.0 10000 9.638915213265 E21 9.750966938073 E21 100000 5.362748331798 E37 5.406412389290 E37 1000000 3.362567348729 E60 3.382539228002 E60 10000000 2.187210706560 E92 2.196854946875 E92 100000000 2.935957885769 E135 2.945782901678 E135 1000000000 3.788233214763 E192 3.798003781412 E192 10000000000 5.577154174589 E266 5.588492690694 E266 100000000000 3.101249943705 E361 3.106297055696 E361 1000000000000 6.614359301415 E480 6.622925643007 E480 One obvious questions from the Taylor series result, that I can't answer, because I have no idea how fast these functions grow as x goes to infinity, relative to exponentiaton. What is the "growth" of a functions like these, which should grow slower than exponentiation, but faster than any polynomial? RE: Searching for an asymptotic to exp[0.5] - tommy1729 - 05/10/2014 (05/10/2014, 12:14 PM)sheldonison Wrote: One obvious questions from the Taylor series result, that I can't answer, because I have no idea how fast these functions grow as x goes to infinity, relative to exponentiaton. What is the "growth" of a functions like these, which should grow slower than exponentiation, but faster than any polynomial? I mentioned these before. They are the " fake " exp(sqrt(x)) and exp(sqrt(sqrt(x))). since a sqrt(x) is much closer to x than any positive iterate of a logaritm it follows that they both also have growth = 1. These sums are related to the linear ordinary differential equations. The first is cosh(sqrt(x)). cosh(ln(x)) < 2cosh(sqrt(x)) < cosh(x). SO growth = 1 follows. --- Also like I said before the 0 terms do not change that much. Maybe that makes more sense now. --- Thanks for the data ! regards tommy1729 RE: Searching for an asymptotic to exp[0.5] - sheldonison - 05/10/2014 (05/10/2014, 12:14 PM)sheldonison Wrote: One obvious questions from the Taylor series result, that I can't answer, because I have no idea how fast these functions grow as x goes to infinity, relative to exponentiaton. What is the "growth" of a functions like these, which should grow slower than exponentiation, but faster than any polynomial? Wow -- both of these functions grow exactly exponentially, where growth is defined as slog(f^n)/n. The first function is But If my math is correct then iterating f is the same as iterating The second function is Ok, the second function is a little more complicated, but if my math is correct, it is going to be the same as iterating So, half exponential functions, especially the Taylor series of entire versions of half exponential functions need more study... Lets conjecture that I have a constructive definition of an entire half exponential Taylor series, for which I haven't given all of the details, but I have a pari-gp program. Then the Taylor series coefficients must eventually grow slower than all of these entire functions with exponential growth.... really interesting!!! - Sheldon RE: Searching for an asymptotic to exp[0.5] - tommy1729 - 05/10/2014 Code: a_1= 1.289368074687 It seems 0.5 n (ln(n)-1) < a_n < 2 n (ln(n)-1). Hence the new conjecture is 1/(n ln(n)) ! as Taylor coefficients. regards tommy1729 RE: Searching for an asymptotic to exp[0.5] - tommy1729 - 05/10/2014 (05/10/2014, 11:48 PM)sheldonison Wrote:(05/10/2014, 12:14 PM)sheldonison Wrote: One obvious questions from the Taylor series result, that I can't answer, because I have no idea how fast these functions grow as x goes to infinity, relative to exponentiaton. What is the "growth" of a functions like these, which should grow slower than exponentiation, but faster than any polynomial? Nice to see you agree. But I kinda said all those things recently. regards tommy1729 RE: Searching for an asymptotic to exp[0.5] - sheldonison - 05/12/2014 (05/10/2014, 11:58 PM)tommy1729 Wrote:(05/10/2014, 11:48 PM)sheldonison Wrote: ..... Agreed; and I'm sure I probably realized that before posting, my reply was also only a few minutes after your reply ![]() (05/10/2014, 11:58 PM)tommy1729 Wrote: Hence the new conjecture is 1/(n ln(n)) ! as Taylor coefficients. We desire an asymptotic under-approximation of the half exp(x) with all positive Taylor series coefficients at x=0, based on the Kneser half exp(x) function, which is not entire. So we need For log(exp^0.5(x)), we can substitute exp^0.5(log(x)). Next, replace x with log(x), and change the range from x>0, to all x Conjecture, for each a_n, there is a particular value of x that most limits a_n. In other words, we conjecture that for each value of n, exp^0.5(x)-nx has one minimum value, where the derivative is zero. At the minimum, the derivative will be equal 0, so defining Now define This is the first step of my generation of an entire approximation of f(x), and is probably the most important, by replacing the "<" with equal". Here is the first entire asymptotic approximation of halfx, where With this approximation f(x) will be an entire over approximation of the exp^0.5(x). To get a better approximation, use the same values from above, and scale the a_n values to generate b_n. Formally, we can get a better approximation by scaling, where we evaluate f1(x) at Then a much better entire approximation of exp^0.5(x) is: For values of x on the order 1E10, the ratio of f_2(x) to exp^0.5(x) is accurate to about 1 part in 10000. I think the ratio of f_2(x) to exp^0.5(x) goes to exactly 1 as x goes to infinity. By the way, this f_2(x) is a little bit more accurate than the results I posted earlier in this thread, which used rough approximations for the minimum of a_n, instead of derivatives. One can also scale twice (or more times though the lower derivatives probably start oscillating); scaling twice, I get accuracy of 0.2 parts per million for f_3(1E10)/exp^0.5(1E10). By scaling three times, I get an accuracy of 1 part per billion, for f_4(1E10)/exp^0.5(1E10). I hope the next step is to come up with a recursive equation, given any particular value of a_n, to come up with another a_n, for another much larger value of n. Specifically, can we come up with an approximation for how fast the factorial in the denominator grows? Specifically, given n, I can generate a_m, where h_n is the location used to evaluate a_n, from above. Starting with n, and a_n, the first two equations just use a_n from above. Skipping a lot of algebra, this is what I got to. I can include the algebra later. Here, we are generating a fractional Taylor series coefficient m, from the value n above, which would exactly match the equation above. I haven't been able to do anything useful in terms of limiting behavior (yet), but I only got this recursive relationship cleaned up a few minutes ago, this morning; I expect the relationship will be there! If I apply these equations to n=6, I get h_6=5.546380530883 and a_6=0.0000001055905600243, and m=700791.2, and log(a_m)= -149682094.7, which is correct. Then a_m = 1/9906980.030456! which is 1/(m*14.137)!, which actually matches Tommy's conjecture reasonably well since log(m)=13.4599. Hopefully, the equations I just posted don't have too many typos.... If there are typos, I can say that I have a working pari-gp program that implements these mathematical equations (without typos). The goal is to use this recursive relationship to prove something about f(n) where a_n = 1/f(n)!. Also, the second set of equations allows generating accurate recursive coefficients for much much larger values of n than the original equation. This could be used to check Tommy's conjecture.... - Sheldon RE: Searching for an asymptotic to exp[0.5] - JmsNxn - 05/12/2014 I'm not sure if this will help, but I know some about taylor series and can do some fractional calculus ![]() If Maybe that might help some of you? The unfortunate part is as |