The function may be called by the names: d01ssc, nag_quad_dim1_quad_inf_wt_trig_1 or nag_1d_quad_inf_wt_trig_1.
3Description
d01ssc is based upon the QUADPACK routine QAWFE (Piessens et al. (1983)). It is an adaptive function, designed to integrate a function of the form over a semi-infinite interval, where is either or . Over successive intervals
integration is performed by the same algorithm as is used by d01snc. The intervals are of constant length
where represents the largest integer less than or equal to . Since equals an odd number of half periods, the integral contributions over succeeding intervals will alternate in sign when the function is positive and monotonically decreasing over . The algorithm, described by Piessens et al. (1983), incorporates a global acceptance criterion (as defined by Malcolm and Simpson (1976)) together with the -algorithm (Wynn (1956)) to perform extrapolation. The local error estimation is described by Piessens et al. (1983).
If and , the function uses the same algorithm as d01smc (with ).
In contrast to most other functions in Chapter D01, d01ssc works only with a user-specified absolute error tolerance (epsabs). Over the interval it attempts to satisfy the absolute accuracy requirement
where , for and .
However, when difficulties occur during the integration over the th interval such that the error flag is nonzero, the accuracy requirement over subsequent intervals is relaxed. See Piessens et al. (1983) for more details.
4References
Malcolm M A and Simpson R B (1976) Local versus global strategies for adaptive quadrature ACM Trans. Math. Software1 129–146
Piessens R, de Doncker–Kapenga E, Überhuber C and Kahaner D (1983) QUADPACK, A Subroutine Package for Automatic Integration Springer–Verlag
Wynn P (1956) On a device for computing the transformation Math. Tables Aids Comput.10 91–96
5Arguments
1: – function, supplied by the userExternal Function
g must return the value of the function at a given point.
On entry: the point at which the function must be evaluated.
2: – Nag_User *
Pointer to a structure of type Nag_User with the following member:
p – Pointer
On entry/exit: the pointer should be cast to the required type, e.g.,
struct user *s = (struct user *)comm → p, to obtain the original object's address with appropriate type. (See the argument comm below.)
Note:g should not return floating-point NaN (Not a Number) or infinity values, since these are not handled by d01ssc. If your code inadvertently does return any NaNs or infinities, d01ssc is likely to produce unexpected results.
2: – doubleInput
On entry: the lower limit of integration, .
3: – doubleInput
On entry: the argument in the weight function of the transform.
4: – Nag_TrigTransformInput
On entry: indicates which integral is to be computed:
if , ;
if , .
Constraint:
or .
5: – IntegerInput
On entry: an upper bound on the number of intervals needed for the integration.
Suggested value:
is adequate for most problems.
Constraint:
.
6: – IntegerInput
On entry: the upper bound on the number of sub-intervals into which the interval of integration may be divided by the function. The more difficult the integrand, the larger max_num_subint should be.
Constraint:
.
7: – doubleInput
On entry: the absolute accuracy required. If epsabs is negative, the absolute value is used. See Section 7.
8: – double *Output
On exit: the approximation to the integral .
9: – double *Output
On exit: an estimate of the modulus of the absolute error, which should be an upper bound for .
10: – Nag_QuadSubProgress *
Pointer to structure of type Nag_QuadSubProgress with the following members:
intervals – IntegerOutput
On exit: the number of intervals actually used for the integration.
fun_count – IntegerOutput
On exit: the number of function evaluations performed by d01ssc.
subints_per_interval – Integer *Output
On exit: the maximum number of sub-intervals actually used for integrating over any of the intervals .
interval_error – double *Output
On exit: the error estimate corresponding to the integral contribution over the interval , for .
interval_result – double *Output
On exit: the corresponding integral contribution over the interval , for .
interval_flag – Integer *Output
On exit: the error flag corresponding to , for . See also Section 6.
When the information available in the arrays , and is no longer useful, or before a subsequent call to d01ssc with the same argument qpsub is made, you should free the storage contained in this pointer using the NAG macro NAG_FREE. Note that these arrays do not need to be freed if one of the error exits NE_INT_ARG_LT, NE_BAD_PARAM or NE_ALLOC_FAIL occurred.
11: – Nag_User *
Pointer to a structure of type Nag_User with the following member:
p – Pointer
On entry/exit: the pointer , of type Pointer, allows you to communicate information to and from g(). An object of the required type should be declared, e.g., a structure, and its address assigned to the pointer by means of a cast to Pointer in the calling program, e.g., comm.p = (Pointer)&s. The type Pointer is void *.
12: – NagError *Input/Output
The NAG error argument (see Section 7 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface).
6Error Indicators and Warnings
In the cases where , NE_QUAD_MAX_INT or NE_QUAD_EXTRAPL_INT, additional information about the cause of the error can be obtained from the array , as follows:
The maximum number of subdivisions has been achieved on the th interval.
Occurrence of round-off error is detected and prevents the tolerance imposed on the th interval from being achieved.
Extremely bad integrand behaviour occurs at some points of the th interval.
The integration procedure over the th interval does not converge (to within the required accuracy) due to round-off in the extrapolation procedure invoked on this interval. It is assumed that the result on this interval is the best which can be obtained.
The integral over the th interval is probably divergent or slowly convergent. It must be noted that divergence can occur with any other value of .
Bad integrand behaviour occurs at some points of the interval.
over sub-interval .
NE_QUAD_BAD_SUBDIV
Extremely bad integrand behaviour occurs around the sub-interval .
The same advice applies as in the case of NE_QUAD_MAX_SUBDIV.
NE_QUAD_BAD_SUBDIV_INT
Bad integration behaviour has occurred within one or more intervals.
NE_QUAD_DIVERGENCE_SPEC_INT
The integral is probably divergent on the interval.
over sub-interval .
NE_QUAD_EXTRAPL_INT
The extrapolation table constructed for convergence acceleration of the series formed by the integral contribution over the integral does not converge.
NE_QUAD_MAX_INT
Maximum number of intervals allowed has been achieved. Increase the value of maxintervals.
NE_QUAD_MAX_SUBDIV
The maximum number of subdivisions has been reached: .
The maximum number of subdivisions within an interval has been reached without the accuracy requirements being achieved. Look at the integrand in order to determine the integration difficulties. If the position of a local difficulty within the interval can be determined (e.g., a singularity of the integrand or its derivative, a peak, a discontinuity, etc.) you will probably gain from splitting up the interval at this point and calling this function on the infinite subrange and an appropriate integrator on the finite subrange. Alternatively, consider relaxing the accuracy requirements specified by epsabs or increasing the value of max_num_subint.
NE_QUAD_MAX_SUBDIV_SPEC_INT
The maximum number of subdivisions has been reached,
on the interval.
over sub-interval .
NE_QUAD_NO_CONV
The integral is probably divergent or slowly convergent.
Please note that divergence can also occur with any error exit other than NE_INT_ARG_LT, NE_BAD_PARAM or NE_ALLOC_FAIL.
NE_QUAD_NO_CONV_SPEC_INT
The integral has failed to converge on the interval.
over sub-interval .
NE_QUAD_ROUNDOFF_ABS_TOL
Round-off error prevents the requested tolerance from being achieved: .
The error may be underestimated. Consider relaxing the accuracy requirements specified by epsabs.
NE_QUAD_ROUNDOFF_EXTRAPL
Round-off error is detected during extrapolation.
The requested tolerance cannot be achieved, because the extrapolation does not increase the accuracy satisfactorily; the returned result is the best that can be obtained.
The same advice applies as in the case of NE_QUAD_MAX_SUBDIV.
NE_QUAD_ROUNDOFF_TOL_SPEC_INT
Round-off error prevents the requested tolerance from being achieved on the interval.
over sub-interval .
7Accuracy
d01ssc cannot guarantee, but in practice usually achieves, the following accuracy:
where epsabs is the user-specified absolute error tolerance. Moreover it returns the quantity abserr which, in normal circumstances, satisfies
8Parallelism and Performance
Background information to multithreading can be found in the Multithreading documentation.
d01ssc is not threaded in any implementation.
9Further Comments
The time taken by d01ssc depends on the integrand and on the accuracy required.