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20132023
most citedAn algorithm for the numerical evaluation of the associated Legendre functions that runs in time independent of degree and order

11 citations · 30 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

math.NA2023

A frequency-independent solver for systems of first order linear ordinary differential equations

Tony Hu, James Bremer

When a system of first order linear ordinary differential equations has eigenvalues of large magnitude, its solutions exhibit complicated behaviour, such as high-frequency oscillat…

math.NA2023

The Levin approach to the numerical calculation of phase functions

Murdock Aubry, James Bremer

The solutions of scalar ordinary differential equations become more complex as their coefficients increase in magnitude. As a consequence, when a standard solver is applied to such…

math.NA2022

Phase function methods for second order inhomogeneous linear ordinary differential equations

Kirill Serkh, James Bremer

It is well known that second order homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations with slowly varying coefficients admit slowly varying phase functions. This observation underl…

math.NA2022★ 1 cited

On the adaptive Levin method

Shukui Chen, Kirill Serkh, James Bremer

The Levin method is a well-known technique for evaluating oscillatory integrals, which operates by solving a certain ordinary differential equation in order to construct an antider…

math.NA2022★ 1 cited

Phase function methods for second order linear ordinary differential equations with turning points

James Bremer

It is well known that second order linear ordinary differential equations with slowly varying coefficients admit slowly varying phase functions. This observation is the basis of th…

math.NA2021

An algorithm for the numerical evaluation of the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalues of the spheroidal wave functions of order zero

Rafeh Rehan, James Bremer

In addition to being the eigenfunctions of the restricted Fourier operator, the angular spheroidal wave functions of the first kind of order zero and nonnegative integer characteri…

math.NA2021

On the numerical evaluation of the prolate spheroidal wave functions of order zero

James Bremer

We describe a method for the numerical evaluation of the angular prolate spheroidal wave functions of the first kind of order zero. It is based on the observation that underlies th…

math.NA2020★ 2 cited

Rapid Application of the Spherical Harmonic Transform via Interpolative Decomposition Butterfly Factorization

James Bremer, Ze Chen, Haizhao Yang

We describe an algorithm for the application of the forward and inverse spherical harmonic transforms. It is based on a new method for rapidly computing the forward and inverse ass…

math.NA2019★ 2 cited

A quasilinear complexity algorithm for the numerical simulation of scattering from a two-dimensional radially symmetric potential

James Bremer

Standard solvers for the variable coefficient Helmholtz equation in two spatial dimensions have running times which grow quadratically with the wavenumber . Here, we describe a…

math.NA2019

An O(1) Algorithm for the Numerical Evaluation of the Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions of Order 0

Xinge Zhang, James Bremer

The standard algorithm for the numerical evaluation of the prolate spheroidal wave function of order , bandlimit and characteristic…

math.NA2019★ 2 cited

Fast Algorithms for the Multi-dimensional Jacobi Polynomial Transform

James Bremer, Qiyuan Pang, Haizhao Yang

We use the well-known observation that the solutions of Jacobi's differential equation can be represented via non-oscillatory phase and amplitude functions to develop a fast algori…

math.NA2018★ 2 cited

Fast algorithms for Jacobi expansions via nonoscillatory phase functions

James Bremer, Haizhao Yang

We describe a suite of fast algorithms for evaluating Jacobi polynomials, applying the corresponding discrete Sturm-Liouville eigentransforms and calculating Gauss-Jacobi quadratur…

math.NA2017★ 11 cited

An algorithm for the numerical evaluation of the associated Legendre functions that runs in time independent of degree and order

James Bremer

We describe a method for the numerical evaluation of normalized versions of the associated Legendre functions and of degrees and orde…

math.NA2017★ 1 cited

An algorithm for the rapid numerical evaluation of Bessel functions of real orders and arguments

James Bremer

We describe a method for the rapid numerical evaluation of the Bessel functions of the first and second kinds of nonnegative real orders and positive arguments. Our algorithm makes…

math.NA2017★ 2 cited

On the nonoscillatory phase function for Legendre's differential equation

James Bremer, Vladimir Rokhlin

We express a certain complex-valued solution of Legendre's differential equation as the product of an oscillatory exponential function and an integral involving only nonoscillatory…

math.NA2015

On the numerical calculation of the roots of special functions satisfying second order ordinary differential equations

James Bremer

We describe a method for calculating the roots of special functions satisfying second order linear ordinary differential equations. It exploits the recent observation that the solu…

math.CA2015

Improved estimates for nonoscillatory phase functions

James Bremer, Vladimir Rokhlin

Recently, it was observed that solutions of a large class of highly oscillatory second order linear ordinary differential equations can be approximated using nonoscillatory phase f…

math.NA2014

On the existence of nonoscillatory phase functions for second order differential equations in the high-frequency regime

Jhu Heitman, James Bremer, Vladimir Rokhlin

We observe that solutions of a large class of highly oscillatory second order linear ordinary differential equations can be approximated using nonoscillatory phase functions. In ad…

math.NA2014★ 4 cited

On the numerical solution of second order differential equations in the high-frequency regime

James Bremer

We describe an algorithm for the numerical solution of second order linear differential equations in the highly-oscillatory regime. It is founded on the recent observation that the…

math.NA2014★ 2 cited

On the asymptotics of Bessel functions in the Fresnel regime

Jhu Heitman, James Bremer, Vladimir Rokhlin +1

We introduce a version of the asymptotic expansions for Bessel functions , that is valid whenever (which is deep in the Fresnel regime), as opposed to th…

math.NA2013

A high-order accurate accelerated direct solver for acoustic scattering from surfaces

James Bremer, Adrianna Gillman, Per-Gunnar Martinsson

We describe an accelerated direct solver for the integral equations which model acoustic scattering from curved surfaces. Surfaces are specified via a collection of smooth paramete…