Sinc integrals and tiny numbers

DOI10.4171/EM/295zbMATH Open1345.42003arXiv1510.03200MaRDI QIDQ301473FDOQ301473

Authors: Uwe Bäsel, Robert Baillie 

Publication date: 30 June 2016

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

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 $9.6492736004286844634795531209398105309232cdot10^{-554381308}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03200

zbMATH Keywords

numerical methodssinc functionBorwein integrals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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