A constraint on extensible quadrature rules
A constraint on extensible quadrature rules
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可扩展求积规则的约束
作者:
A. Owen
Here we consider integration methods with error bounded below by $$mn^{-alpha }$$mn-α for a constant $$m>0$$m>0 and rate $$alpha >1$$α>1. Suppose that simple averages along an extensible sequence have error at most $$Mn^{-alpha }$$Mn-α for all $$n$$n in an infinite sequence of sample sizes $$n_1<n_2<cdots $$n1<n2<⋯. The main result in this paper is a lower bound $$n_{k+1}/n_kge
ho $$nk+1/nk≥ρ where $$1<
ho <2$$1<ρ<2, so that the special sample sizes must grow at least geometrically. The bound $$
ho $$ρ increases with $$alpha $$α and with $$m/M$$m/M. This result always rules out arithmetic sequences but never rules out sample size doubling. The same constraint holds in a root mean square error setting for any random sequence of points. Those random points need not be independent, nor uniformly distributed.