Title
Formally Verified Approximations of Definite Integrals.
Abstract
Finding an elementary form for an antiderivative is often a difficult task, so numerical integration has become a common tool when it comes to making sense of a definite integral. Some of the numerical integration methods can even be made rigorous: not only do they compute an approximation of the integral value but they also bound its inaccuracy. Yet numerical integration is still missing from the toolbox when performing formal proofs in analysis. This paper presents an efficient method for automatically computing and proving bounds on some definite integrals inside the Coq formal system. Our approach is not based on traditional quadrature methods such as Newton–Cotes formulas. Instead, it relies on computing and evaluating antiderivatives of rigorous polynomial approximations, combined with an adaptive domain splitting. Our approach also handles improper integrals, provided that a factor of the integrand belongs to a catalog of identified integrable functions. This work has been integrated to the CoqInterval library.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10817-018-9463-7
ITP
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Formal proof, Numeric computations, Definite integrals, Improper integrals, Decision procedure, Interval arithmetic, Polynomial approximations, Real analysis
Journal
62
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1573-0670
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Assia Mahboubi130820.84
Guillaume Melquiond234524.82
Thomas Sibut-Pinote3514.25