Title
Fast Multipole Method for Multivariable Integrals
Abstract
We give a fast numerical algorithm to evaluate a class of multivariable integrals. A direct numerical evaluation of these integrals costs $N^m$, where $m$ is the number of variables and $N$ is the number of the quadrature points for each variable. For $m=2$ and $m=3$ and for only one-dimensional variables, we present an algorithm which is able to reduce this cost from $N^m$ to a cost of the order of $O((-\log \epsilon )^{\mu_m} N)$, where $\epsilon$ is the desired accuracy and $\mu_m$ is a constant that depends only on $m$. Then, we make some comments about possible extensions of such algorithms to number of variables $m\geq 4$ and to higher dimensions. This recursive algorithm can be viewed as an extension of ``fast multipole methods" to situations where the interactions between particles are more complex than the standard case of binary interactions. Numerical tests illustrating the efficiency and the limitation of this method are presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1137/S0036142902409690
SIAM J. Numerical Analysis
Keywords
DocType
Volume
multivariable integrals,direct numerical evaluation,numerical test,recursive algorithm,integrals cost,multipole method,binary interaction,fast numerical algorithm,fast multipole method,multivariable integral,one-dimensional variable,higher dimension
Journal
42
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0036-1429
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Olivier Bokanowski19812.07
Mohammed Lemou212815.85