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Article #464"Difficult" oscillatory integrations
From: Massimo Campostrini
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 08:46
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 08:46
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I often have to perform numerical integrals of the form
/\ infinity
/
/ f(x) dx
/
\/ 0
where f(x) is oscillating and the integral of |f(x)| diverges
[f(x) often behaves like sin(omega*x+phi)/sqrt(x) for large x].
Are there any really accurate numerical integration methods for
this class of problems (I need at least 7 digit precision),
apart from rotating the integration contour in the complex plane
to imaginary x? (contour integration works very well, but takes
a lot of analytical effort: I have identify all poles and cuts
of f, which is a very complicated transcendent function,
depending on parameters...)
Thanks in advance,
--
Massimo Campostrini,
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa,
Piazza Torricelli 2, I-56126 Pisa, Italy || Phone: (+39)(50)42093
Internet: campo@sunthpi3.difi.unipi.it || Fax: (+39)(50)48277
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