QUADRATURE_RULES_HERMITE_PHYSICIST
Gauss-Hermite Quadrature Rules, Physicist Weight

QUADRATURE_RULES_HERMITE_PHYSICIST is a dataset directory which contains examples of quadrature rules of Gauss-Hermite type using the physicist weight.

Gauss-Hermite quadrature rules are designed to approximate integrals on the infinite interval (-oo,+oo).

The Gauss Hermite quadrature assumes that the integrand we are considering has a form like:

        Integral ( -oo < x < +oo ) w(x) * f(x) dx
      

There are three common variations of the rule, depending on the form of the weight factor w(x):

• option = 0, the unweighted rule:

              Integral ( -oo < x < +oo ) f(x) dx
            

• option = 1, the physicist weighted rule:

              Integral ( -oo < x < +oo ) exp(-x*x) f(x) dx
            

• option = 2, the probabilist weighted rule:

              Integral ( -oo < x < +oo ) exp(-x*x/2) f(x) dx
            

The corresponding Gauss-Hermite rule that uses order points will approximate the integral by

        sum ( 1 <= i <= order ) w(i) * f(x(i)) 
      

For this directory, a quadrature rule is stored as three files, containing the weights, the points, and a file containing two points defining the endpoints of the region. Since the Hermite rules are defined on an infinite region, we set the endpoints to a very large negative and positive values respectively, and hope the program will understand what we mean.

If a Gauss-Hermite rule of order n is computed and evaluated with no numerical error, then it should produce the exact integral of any (weighted) polynomial of degree 2*n-1 or less.

As a simple check, for the physicist rule, the weights should add to sqrt(pi) = 1.7724538509055160273

Example:

We consider a physicist weighted Gauss-Hermite quadrature rule of order 3.

Here is the text of the "W" file storing the weights of such a rule:

  0.2954089751509195    
   1.181635900603677    
  0.2954089751509196    
       

Here is the text of the "X" file storing the abscissas of such a rule:

 
  -1.224744871391589    
 -0.9862844991098402E-16
   1.224744871391589 
      

Here is the text of the "R" file storing the lower and upper limits of the region. These are formally -oo and +oo, but here we simply give them as large values.

 -0.1000000000000000E+31
  0.1000000000000000E+31
      

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Related Data and Programs:

HERMITE_POLYNOMIAL, a C++ library which evaluates the physicist's Hermite polynomial, the probabilist's Hermite polynomial, the Hermite function, and related functions.

HERMITE_RULE, a C++ program which can compute and print a Gauss-Hermite quadrature rule.

INT_EXACTNESS_HERMITE, a C++ program which tests the polynomial exactness of Gauss-Hermite quadrature rules.

QUADRATURE_RULES_GEN_HERMITE, a dataset directory which contains quadrature rules for integration on an infinite interval, using a generalized Gauss-Hermite rule.

QUADRATURE_RULES_HERMITE_PROBABILIST, a dataset directory which contains Gauss-Hermite quadrature rules, for integration on the interval (-oo,+oo), with weight function exp(-x^2/2).

QUADRATURE_RULES_HERMITE_UNWEIGHTED, a dataset directory which contains Gauss-Hermite quadrature rules, for integration on the interval (-oo,+oo), with weight function 1.

SPARSE_GRID_HERMITE, a dataset directory which contains M-dimensional Smolyak sparse grids based on the 1D Gauss-Hermite rule;

TEST_INT_HERMITE, a C++ library which defines test integrands for integration over (-oo,+oo).

Sample Files:

Gauss-Hermite Quadrature Rule, Physicist Weight, Order 1:

• hermite_physicist_001_x.txt, the abscissas.
• hermite_physicist_001_w.txt, the weights.
• hermite_physicist_001_r.txt, the range.

Gauss-Hermite Quadrature Rule, Physicist Weight, Order 3:

• hermite_physicist_003_x.txt, the abscissas.
• hermite_physicist_003_w.txt, the weights.
• hermite_physicist_003_r.txt, the range.

Gauss-Hermite Quadrature Rule, Physicist Weight, Order 7:

• hermite_physicist_007_x.txt, the abscissas.
• hermite_physicist_007_w.txt, the weights.
• hermite_physicist_007_r.txt, the range.

Gauss-Hermite Quadrature Rule, Physicist Weight, Order 15:

• hermite_physicist_015_x.txt, the abscissas.
• hermite_physicist_015_w.txt, the weights.
• hermite_physicist_015_r.txt, the range.

Gauss-Hermite Quadrature Rule, Physicist Weight, Order 31:

• hermite_physicist_031_x.txt, the abscissas.
• hermite_physicist_031_w.txt, the weights.
• hermite_physicist_031_r.txt, the range.

Gauss-Hermite Quadrature Rule, Physicist Weight, Order 63:

• hermite_physicist_063_x.txt, the abscissas.
• hermite_physicist_063_w.txt, the weights.
• hermite_physicist_063_r.txt, the range.

Gauss-Hermite Quadrature Rule, Physicist Weight, Order 127:

• hermite_physicist_127_x.txt, the abscissas.
• hermite_physicist_127_w.txt, the weights.
• hermite_physicist_127_r.txt, the range.

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