Solutions of differential equations in Freud-weighted Sobolev spaces

Abstract

We lay some mathematically rigorous foundations for the resolution of differential equations with respect to semi-classical bases and topologies, namely Freud-Sobolev polynomials and spaces. In this quest, we uncover an elegant theory melding various topics in Numerical and Functional Analysis: Poincar\'e inequalities, Sobolev orthogonal polynomials, Painlev\'e equations and more. Brought together, these ingredients allow us to quantify the compactness of Sobolev embeddings on Freud-weighted spaces and finally resolve some differential equations in this topology. As an application, we rigorously and tightly enclose solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with sextic potential.