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We revisit the Karagiannidis-Lioumpas (KL) approximation of the Q-function by optimizing its coefficients in terms of absolute error, relative error and total error. For minimizing the maximum absolute/relative error, we describe the…

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Here we research the univariate quantitative approximation of real and complex valued continuous functions on a compact interval or all the real line by quasi-interpolation, Baskakov type and quadrature type neural network operators. We…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-04-28 George Anastassiou

We derive an asymptotic error formula for Gauss--Legendre quadrature applied to functions with limited regularity, using the contour-integral representation of the remainder term. To address the absence of uniformly valid approximations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Pei Liu

We present a new approximation to the normal distribution quantile function. It has a similar form to the approximation of Beasley and Springer [3], providing a maximum absolute error of less than $2.5 \cdot 10^{-5}$. This is less accurate…

Computation · Statistics 2010-02-03 Paul M. Voutier

This work introduces a general numerical technique to invert one dimensional analytic or tabulated nonlinear functions in assigned ranges of interest. The proposed approach is based on an optimal version of the k-vector range searching, an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-07 David Arnas , Daniele Mortari

This paper explores the use of "generated sets" $\{ \{ k \boldsymbol{\zeta} \} : k = 1, \ldots, n \}$ for function approximation in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces which consist of multi-dimensional functions with an absolutely convergent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Ronald Cools , Dirk Nuyens , Laurence Wilkes

In this paper, we propose an interpolation formula for periodic functions. This formula can be regarded as an analog of the Sinc approximation, which is an interpolation formula for functions defined on the entire infinite interval.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Hidenori Ogata

Dyson's integration theorem is widely used in the computation of eigenvalue correlation functions in Random Matrix Theory. Here we focus on the variant of the theorem for determinants, relevant for the unitary ensembles with Dyson index…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gernot Akemann , Leonid Shifrin

Bernstein's theorem (also called Hausdorff--Bernstein--Widder theorem) enables the integral representation of a completely monotonic function. We introduce a finite completely monotonic function, which is a completely monotonic function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Yohei M. Koyama

Linear combinations of translations of a single Gaussian, e^{-x^2}, are shown to be dense in L^2(R). Two algorithms for determining the coefficients for the approximations are given, using orthogonal Hermite functions and least squares.…

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The $Q^2$ evolution of polarised parton distributions at small $x$ is studied. Various analytic approximations are critically discussed. We compare the full evolution with that obtained from the leading-pole approximation to the splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 T. Gehrmann , W. J. Stirling

We implement an efficient method of computation of two dimensional Fourier-type integrals based on approximation of the integrand by Gaussian radial basis functions, which constitute a standard tool in approximation theory. As a result, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-07 A. Martinez-Finkelshtein , D. Ramos-Lopez , D. R. Iskander

The inverse of the error function, $\operatorname{inverf}(x),$ has applications in diffusion problems, chemical potentials, ultrasound imaging, etc. We analyze the derivatives $\frac{d^{n}}{dz^{n}} \operatorname*{inverf}(z) |_{z=0}$, as…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Diego Dominici

Approximate solutions to functional evolution equations are constructed through a combination of series and conjugation methods, and relative errors are estimated. The methods are illustrated, both analytically and numerically, by…

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Modern density functional approximations achieve moderate accuracy at low computational cost for many electronic structure calculations. Some background is given relating the gradient expansion of density functional theory to the WKB…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Kieron Burke

We present an analytic study of the finite size effects in Sine--Gordon model, based on the semiclassical quantization of an appropriate kink background defined on a cylindrical geometry. The quasi--periodic kink is realized as an elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Mussardo , V. Riva , G. Sotkov

A general framework with a series of different methods is proposed to improve the estimate of convex function (or functional) values when only noisy observations of the true input are available. Technically, our methods catch the bias…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-15 Chao Ma , Lexing Ying

Tensor regression has attracted significant attention in statistical research. This study tackles the challenge of handling covariates with smooth varying structures. We introduce a novel framework, termed functional tensor regression,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-12 Tongyu Li , Fang Yao , Anru R. Zhang

We review the role of self-consistency in density functional theory. We apply a recent analysis to both Kohn-Sham and orbital-free DFT, as well as to Partition-DFT, which generalizes all aspects of standard DFT. In each case, the analysis…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Adam Wasserman , Jonathan Nafziger , Kaili Jiang , Min-Cheol Kim , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

We prove a series of results on the size of distance sets corresponding to sets in the Euclidean space. These distances are generated by bounded convex sets and the results depend explicitly on the geometry of these sets. We also use a…

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