A quadrature formula of Clenshaw-Curtis type for the Gegenbauer weight-function

  • Authors:
  • D. B. Hunter;H. V. Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematics Unit, Department of Computing, University of Bradford, Bradford 7, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK;Quadrature Research Centre, 22 Hodgson Avenue, Leeds LS17 8PQ, UK

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We investigate a method for the numerical evaluation of integrals over [-1, 1] of functions of the form (1 - x2)λ-1/2f(x), based on approximating f(x) by a finite Chebyshev expansion. Error bounds are obtained, and the method is illustrated by an example.