Generalized Fresnel integrals

A general class of (finite dimensional) oscillatory integrals with polynomially growing phase functions is studied. A representation formula of the Parseval type is proven as well as a formula giving the integrals in terms of analytically continued absolutely convergent integrals. Their asymptotic expansion for “strong oscillations” is given. The expansion is in powers of ?1/2M, where ? is a small parameters and 2M is the order of growth of the phase function. Additional assumptions on the integrands are found which are sufficient to yield convergent, resp. Borel summable, expansions.     

Oscillatory integrals and the method of stationary phase in infinitely many dimensions,with applications to the classical limit of quantum mechanics I

We give a theory of oscillatory integrals in infinitely many dimensions which extends, for a class of phase functions, the finite dimensional theory. In particular we extend the method of stationary phase, the theory of Lagrange immersions and the corresponding asymptotic expansions to the infinite dimensional case. A particular application of the theory to the Feyman path integrals defined in previous work by the authors yields asymptotic expansions to all orders of quantum mechanical quantities in powers of Planck's constant.Work supported by the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities     

Feynman path integrals for polynomially growing potentials

A general class of infinite dimensional oscillatory integrals with polynomially growing phase functions is studied. A representation formula of the Parseval type is proved, as well as a formula giving the integrals in terms of analytically continued absolutely convergent integrals. These results are applied to provide a rigorous Feynman path integral representation for the solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation with a quartic anharmonic potential. The Borel summability of the asymptotic expansion of the solution in power series of the coupling constant is also proved.     

On the boundedness of rough oscillatory singular integrals on Triebel-Lizorkin spaces

We obtain appropriate sharp bounds on Triebel-Lizorkin spaces for rough oscillatory integrals with polynomial phase. By using these bounds and using an extrapolation argument we obtain some new and previously known results for oscillatory integrals under very weak size conditions on the kernel functions.     

Theory and numerical evaluation of oddoids and evenoids: Oscillatory cuspoid integrals with odd and even polynomial phase functions

The properties of oscillating cuspoid integrals whose phase functions are odd and even polynomials are investigated. These integrals are called oddoids and evenoids, respectively (and collectively, oddenoids). We have studied in detail oddenoids whose phase functions contain up to three real parameters. For each oddenoid, we have obtained its Maclaurin series representation and investigated its relation to Airy–Hardy integrals and Bessel functions of fractional orders. We have used techniques from singularity theory to characterise the caustic (or bifurcation set) associated with each oddenoid, including the occurrence of complex whiskers. Plots and short tables of numerical values for the oddenoids are presented. The numerical calculations used the software package CUSPINT [N.P. Kirk, J.N.L. Connor, C.A. Hobbs, An adaptive contour code for the numerical evaluation of the oscillatory cuspoid canonical integrals and their derivatives, Comput. Phys. Commun. 132 (2000) 142–165].     

Pointwise van der Corput lemma for functions of several variables

A multidimensional version of the well-known van der Corput lemma is presented. A class of phase functions is described for which the corresponding oscillatory integrals satisfy a multidimensional decay estimate. The obtained estimates are uniform with respect to parameters on which the phases and amplitudes may depend.     

Stationary phase method in infinite dimensions by finite dimensional approximations: Applications to the Schrödinger equation

We develop an approach by finite dimensional approximations for the study of infinite dimensional oscillatory integrals and the relative method of stationary phase. We provide detailed asymptotic expansions in the nondegenerate as well as in the degenerate case. We also give applications to the derivation of detailed asymptotic expansions in Planck's constant for the Schrödinger equation.     

Numerical evaluation of the two-dimensional partition of unity boundary integrals for Helmholtz problems

There has been considerable attention given in recent years to the problem of extending finite and boundary element-based analysis of Helmholtz problems to higher frequencies. One approach is the Partition of Unity Method, which has been applied successfully to boundary integral solutions of Helmholtz problems, providing significant accuracy benefits while simultaneously reducing the required number of degrees of freedom for a given accuracy. These benefits accrue at the cost of the requirement to perform some numerically intensive calculations in order to evaluate boundary integrals of highly oscillatory functions. In this paper we adapt the numerical steepest descent method to evaluate these integrals for two-dimensional problems. The approach is successful in reducing the computational effort for most integrals encountered. The paper includes some numerical features that are important for successful practical implementation of the algorithm.     

Integrable nonconservative dynamical systems on the tangent bundle of the multidimensional sphere

We construct a class of nonconservative systems of differential equations on the tangent bundle of the sphere of any finite dimension. This class has a complete set of first integrals, which can be expressed as finite combinations of elementary functions. Most of these first integrals consist of transcendental functions of their phase variables. Here the property of being transcendental is understood in the sense of the theory of functions of the complex variable in which transcendental functions are functions with essentially singular points.     

Bilinear oscillatory integrals and boundedness for new bilinear multipliers

We consider bilinear oscillatory integrals, i.e. pseudo-product operators whose symbol involves an oscillating factor. Lebesgue space inequalities are established, which give decay as the oscillation becomes stronger; this extends the well-known linear theory of oscillatory integral in some directions. The proof relies on a combination of time-frequency analysis of Coifman-Meyer type with stationary and non-stationary phase estimates. As a consequence of this analysis, we obtain Lebesgue estimates for new bilinear multipliers defined by non-smooth symbols.     

Invariant Estimates of Two-Dimensional Oscillatory Integrals

Mathematical Notes - Invariant estimates of oscillatory integrals with polynomial phase are studied. The main result is a theorem on uniform invariant estimates of trigonometric integrals. The...     

Feynman path integrals as infinite-dimensional oscillatory integrals: Some new developments

We discuss a basic mathematical approach to Feynman path integrals as infinite-dimensional oscillatory integrals. We present new results on asymptotics of such integrals which exploit recently developed approximation techniques via finite dimensional oscillatory integrals. Applications are also given, namely to the study of the trace of the time evolution operator in quantum mechanics and to the interpretation of Gutzwiller's trace formula as a leading term in an asymptotic expansion around classical periodic orbits.The second named author is an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung fellow.     

Bessel,sine and cosine functions and extrapolation methods for computing molecular multi-center integrals

In this work, we present an extremely efficient approach for a fast numerical evaluation of highly oscillatory spherical Bessel integrals occurring in the analytic expressions of the so-called molecular multi-center integrals over exponential type functions. The approach is based on the Slevinsky-Safouhi formulae for higher derivatives applied to spherical Bessel functions and on extrapolation methods combined with practical properties of sine and cosine functions. Recurrence relations are used for computing the approximations of the spherical Bessel integrals, allowing for a control of accuracy and the stability of the algorithm. The computer algebra system Maple was used in our development, mainly to prove the applicability of the extrapolation methods. Among molecular multi-center integrals, the three-center nuclear attraction and four-center two-electron Coulomb and exchange integrals are undoubtedly the most difficult ones to evaluate rapidly to a high pre-determined accuracy. These integrals are required for both density functional and ab initio calculations. Already for small molecules, many millions of them have to be computed. As the molecular system gets larger, the computation of these integrals becomes one of the most laborious and time consuming steps in molecular electronic structure calculation. Improvement of the computational methods of molecular integrals would be indispensable to a further development in computational studies of large molecular systems. Convergence properties are analyzed to show that the approach presented in this work is a valuable contribution to the existing literature on molecular integral calculations as well as on spherical Bessel integral calculations.     

Complex Gaussian quadrature of oscillatory integrals

We construct and analyze Gauss-type quadrature rules with complex- valued nodes and weights to approximate oscillatory integrals with stationary points of high order. The method is based on substituting the original interval of integration by a set of contours in the complex plane, corresponding to the paths of steepest descent. Each of these line integrals shows an exponentially decaying behaviour, suitable for the application of Gaussian rules with non-standard weight functions. The results differ from those in previous research in the sense that the constructed rules are asymptotically optimal, i.e., among all known methods for oscillatory integrals they deliver the highest possible asymptotic order of convergence, relative to the required number of evaluations of the integrand.     

Are the eigenvalues of preconditioned banded symmetric Toeplitz matrices known in almost closed form?

The problem of computing oscillatory integrals with general oscillators is considered. We employ a Filon-type method, where the interpolation basis functions are chosen in such a way that the moments are in terms of elementary functions and the oscillator only. This allows us to evaluate the moments rapidly and easily without needing to engage hypergeometric functions. The proposed basis functions form a Chebyshev set for any oscillator function even if it has some stationary points in the integration interval. This property enables us to employ the Filon-type method without needing any information about the stationary points if any. Interpolation by the proposed basis functions at the Fekete points (which are known as nearly optimal interpolation points), when combined with the idea of splines, leads to a reliable convergent method for computing the oscillatory integrals. Our numerical experiments show that the proposed method is more efficient than the earlier ones with the same advantages.     

Decay estimates for oscillatory integrals with polynomial phase

We obtain estimates for certain oscillatory integrals with polynomial phase. These estimates are stated in terms of roots of various derivatives of the phase polynomial.     

Rough operators and commutators on homogeneous weighted Herz spaces

The authors establish the boundedness on homogeneous weighted Herz spaces for a large class of rough grals and the rough R. Fefferman singular integral operators and the rough Ricci-Stein oscillatory singular integrals and the corresponding commutators are considered.     

$$L^p$$-Estimates for Singular Oscillatory Integral Operators

In this paper we study singular oscillatory integrals with a nonlinear phase function. We prove estimates of \(L^2 \rightarrow L^2\) and \(L^p\rightarrow L^p\) type.     

Analysis of a collocation method for integrating rapidly oscillatory functions

A collocation method for approximating integrals of rapidly oscillatory functions is analyzed. The method is efficient for integrals involving Bessel functions J_v(rx) with a large oscillation frequency parameter r, as well as for many other one- and multi-dimensional integrals of functions with rapid irregular oscillations. The analysis provides a convergence rate and it shows that the relative error of the method is even decreasing as the frequency of the oscillations increases.     

Analog of <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Superscript> with a subadditive measure

For a subadditive fuzzy measure (not assumed finite), a Minkowski type triangle inequality, with Choquet integrals in place of Lebesgue integrals, is shown to hold. It is immediate that the set of functions for which a certain positive power of the absolute values have finite Choquet integrals is closed under addition, leading to a linear space analogous to the Lebesgue space L ^p , with a metric related to the integral of that power. Under the additional condition that the subadditive fuzzy measure is inner continuous (Sugeno), the space is shown to be complete. Consequences of the Minkowski type inequality are illustrated in two specific instances.