Elliptic Rational Function
Elliptic rational functions
are a special class of rational functions that have nice properties for approximating other functions over the interval
. In particular, they are equiripple, satisfy
over
, are minimax approximations over
, exhibit monotonic increase on
, and have minimal order
. Additional properties include symmetry
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(1)
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normalization
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(2)
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the property
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(3)
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and the nesting property
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(4)
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(Lutovac et al. 2001).

Letting the discrimination factor
be the largest value of
for
, the elliptic rational functions can be defined by
![R_n(xi,x)=cd(n(K([L_n(xi)]^(-1)))/(K(xi^(-1)))cd^(-1)(x,xi^(-1)),[L_n(xi)]^(-1)),](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/equations/EllipticRationalFunction/NumberedEquation5.gif) |
(5)
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where
is a complete elliptic integral of the first kind,
is a Jacobi elliptic function, and
is an inverse Jacobi elliptic function. For
, 2, and 3, the functions are given by
where
.
can be expressed in closed form without using elliptic functions for
of the form
.
The elliptic rational functions are related to the Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind
by
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(9)
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Lutovac, M. D.; Tosic, D. V.; and Evans, B. L. Filter Design for Signal Processing Using MATLAB and Mathematica. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2001.