Efficient and Validated Numerical Evaluation of Abelian Integrals

Abstract

Abelian integrals play a key role in the infinitesimal version of Hilbert’s 16th problem. Being able to evaluate such integrals—with guaranteed error bounds—is a fundamental step in computer-aided proofs aimed at this problem. Using interpolation by trigonometric polynomials and quasi-Newton-Kantorovitch validation, we develop a validated numerics method for computing Abelian integrals in a quasi-linear number of arithmetic operations. Our approach is both effective, as exemplified on two practical perturbed integrable systems, and amenable to an implementation in a formal proof assistant, which is key to provide fully reliable computer-aided proofs.