A mixed scheme of product integration rules in (−1,1)

Abstract

The paper deals with the numerical approximation of integrals of the typeI(f,y):=∫−11f(x)k(x,y)dx,y∈S⊂R where f is a smooth function and the kernel k(x,y) involves some kinds of “pathologies” (for instance, weak singularities, high oscillations and/or endpoint algebraic singularities). We introduce and study a product integration rule obtained by interpolating f by an extended Lagrange polynomial based on Jacobi zeros. We prove that the rule is stable and convergent with the order of the best polynomial approximation of f in suitable function spaces. Moreover, we derive a general recurrence relation for the new modified moments appearing in the coefficients of the rule, just using the knowledge of the usual modified moments. The new quadrature sequence, suitable combined with the ordinary product rule, allows to obtain a “mixed” quadrature scheme, significantly reducing the number of involved samples of f. Numerical examples are provided in order to support the theoretical results and to show the efficiency of the procedure.