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An accelerated Levin-Clenshaw-Curtis method for the evaluation of highly oscillatory integrals
Arieh Iserles1, Georg Maierhofer1
1Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.
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The efficient approximation of highly oscillatory integrals plays an important role in a wide range of applications. Whilst traditional quadrature becomes prohibitively expensive in the high-frequency regime, Levin methods provide a way to approximate these integrals in many settings at uniform cost. In this work, we present an accelerated version of Levin methods that can be applied to a wide range of physically important oscillatory integrals, by exploiting the banded action of certain differential operators on a Chebyshev polynomial basis. Our proposed version of the Levin method can be computed essentially in the same cost as a Fast Fourier Transform in the quadrature points and the dependence of the cost on a number of additional parameters is made explicit in the manuscript. This presents a significant speed-up over the direct computation of the Levin method in current state-of-the-art. We outline the construction of this accelerated method for a fairly broad class of integrals and support our theoretical description with a number of illustrative numerical examples.
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