Verified computation of Lamé functions with high accuracy

DOI10.1007/BF02684331MaRDI QIDQ1377265zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H.-J. Dobner, Stefan Matthias Ritter

Publication date 3 October 2000

Published in Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02684331

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to special functions (33-04) Lamé, Mathieu, and spheroidal wave functions (33E10) Interval and finite arithmetic (65G30)

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It is not common knowledge that a sufficiently accurate and efficient computation of higher transcendental functions creates serious problems, even nowadays. For instance, although Lamé (ellipsoidal) functions appear widely in mathematical physics involving ellipsoid geometry, a numerical method for their verified computation is a non trivial task. It is presented here. The necessary numerical tools applied here set high standards. They are e.~g. interval arithmetics (together with the use of algorithms due to \textit{S.~M.~Rump}, A new approach to scientific computation, Proc. Symp., Yorktown Heights, N. Y 1982, Notes Rep. Comput. Sci. Appl. Math. 7, 51-120 (1983; Zbl 0597.65018)), further precise computer arithmetics, so that no floating point number lies between the exact and rounded result of floating point numbers, and automatic differentiation. The high accuracy is illustrated by interval inclusions of various results for Lamé functions of first and second kind.

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