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The main theme of this paper is the construction of efficient, reliable and affordable error bounds for two families of quadrature methods for highly oscillatory integrals. We demonstrate, using asymptotic expansions, that the error can be bounded very precisely indeed at the cost of few extra derivative evaluations. Moreover, in place of derivatives it is possible to use finite difference approximations, with spacing inversely proportional to frequency. This renders the computation of error bounds even cheaper and, more importantly, leads to a new family of quadrature methods for highly oscillatory integrals that can attain arbitrarily high asymptotic order without computation of derivatives.
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Primary 65D30, secondary 34E05.
Received June 2004. Accepted October 2004. Communicated by Lothar Reichel.
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Iserles, A., NØrsett, S.P. On Quadrature Methods for Highly Oscillatory Integrals and Their Implementation. Bit Numer Math 44, 755–772 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10543-004-5243-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10543-004-5243-3