Also called Hermite Quadrature. A Gaussian Quadrature over the interval
with
Weighting Function
. The Abscissas for quadrature order
are given by the
roots of the Hermite Polynomials
, which occur symmetrically about 0. The
Weights are
 |
(1) |
where
is the Coefficient of
in
. For Hermite Polynomials,
 |
(2) |
so
 |
(3) |
Additionally,
 |
(4) |
so
Using the Recurrence Relation
 |
(6) |
yields
 |
(7) |
and gives
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(8) |
The error term is
 |
(9) |
Beyer (1987) gives a table of Abscissas and weights up to
=12.
 |
 |
 |
2 |
± 0.707107 |
0.886227 |
3 |
0 |
1.18164 |
|
± 1.22474 |
0.295409 |
4 |
± 0.524648 |
0.804914 |
|
± 1.65068 |
0.0813128 |
5 |
0 |
0.945309 |
|
± 0.958572 |
0.393619 |
|
± 2.02018 |
0.0199532 |
The Abscissas and weights can be computed analytically for small
.
References
Beyer, W. H. CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, 28th ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 464, 1987.
Hildebrand, F. B. Introduction to Numerical Analysis. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 327-330, 1956.
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1999-05-25