Sinc integrals and tiny numbers

DOI10.4171/EM/295MaRDI QIDQ301473zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Uwe Bäsel, Robert Baillie

Publication date 30 June 2016

Published in Elemente der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03200, http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/show_pdf.php?vol=71&iss=1&issn=0013-6018&rank=2

zbMATH Keywords

numerical methodssinc functionBorwein integrals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic analysis in one variable (42A99) Numerical methods in Fourier analysis (65T99)

Abstract: We apply a result of David and Jon Borwein to evaluate a sequence of highly-oscillatory integrals whose integrands are the products of a rapidly growing number of sinc functions. The value of each integral is given in the form $pi(1-t)/2$, where the numbers $t$ quickly become very tiny. Using the Euler-Maclaurin summation formula, we calculate these numbers to high precision. For example, the integrand of the tenth integral in the sequence is the product of 68100152 sinc functions. The corresponding $t$ is approximately $9.6492736004286844634795531209398105309232cdot10^{-554381308}$.

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