Pseudospectral Methods for the Fractional Laplacian on R

Autor: Cayama, J.
Přispěvatelé: De la Hoz Méndez, Francisco, Cuesta Romero, Carlota María
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
Addi: Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
Universidad del País Vasco
Popis: In this thesis, first, we propose a novel pseudospectral method to approximate accu- rately and efficiently the fractional Laplacian without using truncation. More pre- cisely, given a bounded regular function defined over R, we map the unbounded domain into a finite one, and represent the resulting function as a trigonometric se- ries. Therefore, a key ingredient is the computation of the fractional Laplacian of an elementary trigonometric function. As an application of the method, we do the simulation of Fisher’s equation with the fractional Laplacian in the monostable case. In addition, using complex variable techniques, we compute explicitly, in terms of the 2 F1 Gaussian hypergeometric function, the one-dimensional fractional Laplacian of the Higgins functions, the Christov functions, and their sine-like and cosine-like versions. After discussing the numerical difficulties in the implementation of the proposed formulas, we develop another method that gives exact results, by using variable precision arithmetic. Finally, we discuss some other numerical approximations of the fractional Laplacian using a fast convolution technique. While the resulting techniques are less accu- rate, they are extremely fast; furthermore, the results can be improved by the use of Richardson’s extrapolation.
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