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The AAA algorithm for rational approximation is employed to illustrate applications of rational functions all across numerical analysis.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Yuji Nakatsukasa , Lloyd N. Trefethen

We introduce a new algorithm for approximation by rational functions on a real or complex set of points, implementable in 40 lines of Matlab and requiring no user input parameters. Even on a disk or interval the algorithm may outperform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Yuji Nakatsukasa , Olivier Sète , Lloyd N. Trefethen

We describe an approximate rational arithmetic with round-off errors (both absolute and relative) controlled by the user. The rounding procedure is based on the continued fraction expansion of real numbers. Results of computer experiments…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Grigori Litvinov , Anatoli Rodionov , Andrei Chourkin

In this work, we propose an extensive numerical study on approximating the absolute value function. The methods presented in this paper compute approximants in the form of rational functions and have been proposed relatively recently, e.g.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Ion Victor Gosea , Athanasios C. Antoulas

A selection of algorithms for the rational approximation of matrix-valued functions are discussed, including variants of the interpolatory AAA method, the RKFIT method based on approximate least squares fitting, vector fitting, and a method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Ion Victor Gosea , Stefan Güttel

The AAA algorithm, introduced in 2018, computes best or near-best rational approximations to functions or data on subsets of the real line or the complex plane. It is much faster and more robust than previous algorithms for such problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-07 Yuji Nakatsukasa , Olivier Sete , Lloyd N. Trefethen

We study how well a real number can be approximated by sums of two or more rational numbers with denominators up to a certain size.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tsz Ho Chan , Angel V. Kumchev

Rational minimax approximation of real functions on real intervals is an established topic, but when it comes to complex functions or domains, there appear to be no algorithms currently in use. Such a method is introduced here, the {\em…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Yuji Nakatsukasa , Lloyd N. Trefethen

In this article a fast and parallelizable algorithm for rational approximation is presented. The method, called (P)QR-AAA, is a (parallel) set-valued variant of the AAA algorithm for scalar functions. It builds on the set-valued AAA…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Simon Dirckx , Karl Meerbergen , Daan Huybrechs

Several applications of the QR-AAA algorithm, a greedy scheme for vector-valued rational approximation, are presented. The focus is on demonstrating the flexibility and practical effectiveness of QR-AAA in a variety of computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Simon Dirckx

Approximations based on rational functions are widely used in various applications across computational science and engineering. For univariate functions, the adaptive Antoulas-Anderson algorithm (AAA), which uses the barycentric form of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Linus Balicki , Serkan Gugercin

We introduce a theoretical framework for the rational approximation of optical response functions in resonant photonic systems. The framework is based on the AAA algorithm and further allows to solve the underlying nonlinear eigenproblems…

The AAA algorithm has become a popular tool for data-driven rational approximation of single variable functions, such as transfer functions of a linear dynamical system. In the setting of parametric dynamical systems appearing in many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Andrea Carracedo Rodriguez , Linus Balicki , Serkan Gugercin

We consider the question of approximating any real number $\alpha$ by sums of $n$ rational numbers $\frac{a_1}{q_1} + \frac{a_2}{q_2} + ... + \frac{a_n}{q_n}$ with denominators $1 \leq q_1, q_2, ..., q_n \leq N$. This leads to an inquiry on…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tsz Ho Chan

We seek random versions of some classical theorems on complex approximation by polynomials and rational functions, as well as investigate properties of random compact sets in connection to complex approximation.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Simon St-Amant , Jérémie Turcotte

The adaptive Antoulas-Anderson (AAA) algorithm for rational approximation is a widely used method for the efficient construction of highly accurate rational approximations to given data. While AAA can often produce rational approximations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Michael S. Ackermann , Linus Balicki , Serkan Gugercin , Steffen W. R. Werner

AAA rational approximation has normally been carried out on a discrete set, typically hundreds or thousands of points in a real interval or complex domain. Here we introduce a continuum AAA algorithm that discretizes a domain adaptively as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Toby Driscoll , Yuji Nakatsukasa , Lloyd N. Trefethen

The papers shows an algorithm to search for approximations of reals to rationals of the form a/b^2 that runs on \sqrt(b) polynomial time steps.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Jimenez Calvo

A rational approximation by a ratio of polynomial functions is a flexible alternative to polynomial approximation. In particular, rational functions exhibit accurate estimations to nonsmooth and non- Lipschitz functions, where polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-27 V. Peiris , N. Sharon , N. Sukhorukova J. Ugon

A reasonably complete theory of the approximation of an irrational by rational fractions whose numerators and denominators lie in prescribed arithmetic progressions is developed in this paper. Results are both, on the one hand, from a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-27 Faustin Adiceam
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