Taylor’s formula in Banach spaces
Let be an open subset of a real Banach space .If is differentiable
times on ,it may be expanded by Taylor’s formula:
(1) |
with the following expressions for the remainder term :
Cauchy form of remainder | ||||
Lagrange form of remainder | ||||
integral form of remainder |
Here and must be points of such that the line segmentbetween and lie inside , is ,and the points and lie on the same line segment,strictly between and .
The th Fréchet derivative of at is being denoted by, to be viewed as a multilinear map .The notation means to evaluate a multilinear mapat .
1 Remainders for vector-valued functions
If is a Banach space, we may also considerTaylor expansions for .Formula (4) takes the same form,but the Cauchy and Lagrange forms of the remainderwill not be exact;they will only be bounds on .That is, for ,
Cauchy form of remainder | ||||
Lagrange form of remainder |
It is not hard to find counterexamples if we attempt to remove the norm signs or changethe inequality
to equality in the above formulas.
However, the integral form of the remainder continues to hold for ,although strictly speaking it only applies if the integrand is integrable.The integral form is also applicable when and are complex Banach spaces.
Mean Value Theorem
The Mean Value Theorem can be obtainedas the special case with the Lagrange form of the remainder:for differentiable,
(2) |
If , then the norm signs may be removed from(2), and the inequality replaced by equality.
Formula (2) also holds under the muchweaker hypothesisthat only has a directional derivative along the linesegment from to .
Weaker bounds for the remainder
If is only differentiable times at ,then we cannot quantify the remainder by the th derivative,but it is still truethat
(3) |
Finite-dimensional case
If and , has the following expression in terms of coordinates:
where each runs from in the sum.
If we collect the equal mixed partials(assuming that they are continuous)then
where is a multi-index of components, and each component indicateshow many times the derivative with respect to the th coordinate should be taken,and the exponent that the th coordinate of should be raised toin the monomial .The multi-index runs through all combinations
such that in the sum.The notation means .
All this is more easily assimilated if we remember that is supposed to be a polynomial of degree .Also is just the multinomial coefficient.
Taylor series
If ,then we may write
(4) |
as a convergent infinite series. Elegant as such an expansion is,it is not seen very often,for the reason that higher order Fréchet derivatives, especially in infinite-dimensional spaces,are often difficult to calculate.
But a notable exception occurs if a function is defined by a convergent “power series”
(5) |
where is a family of continuous symmetric multilinear functions .In this case, the series (5) is the Taylor series for at .
References
- 1 Arthur Wouk. A course of applied functional analysis
. Wiley-Interscience, 1979.
- 2 Eberhard Zeidler. Applied functional analysis: main principles and their applications. Springer-Verlag, 1995.
- 3 Michael Spivak. Calculus, third edition. Publish or Perish, 1994.