Validated_numerics

Validated numerics

Validated numerics

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Validated numerics, or rigorous computation, verified computation, reliable computation, numerical verification (German: Zuverlässiges Rechnen) is numerics including mathematically strict error (rounding error, truncation error, discretization error) evaluation, and it is one field of numerical analysis. For computation, interval arithmetic is used, and all results are represented by intervals. Validated numerics were used by Warwick Tucker in order to solve the 14th of Smale's problems,[1] and today it is recognized as a powerful tool for the study of dynamical systems.[2]

Importance

Computation without verification may cause unfortunate results. Below are some examples.

Rump's example

In the 1980s, Rump made an example.[3][4] He made a complicated function and tried to obtain its value. Single precision, double precision, extended precision results seemed to be correct, but its plus-minus sign was different from the true value.

Phantom solution

Breuer–Plum–McKenna used the spectrum method to solve the boundary value problem of the Emden equation, and reported that an asymmetric solution was obtained.[5] This result to the study conflicted to the theoretical study by Gidas–Ni–Nirenberg which claimed that there is no asymmetric solution.[6] The solution obtained by Breuer–Plum–McKenna was a phantom solution caused by discretization error. This is a rare case, but it tells us that when we want to strictly discuss differential equations, numerical solutions must be verified.

Accidents caused by numerical errors

The following examples are known as accidents caused by numerical errors:

  • Failure of intercepting missiles in the Gulf War (1991)[7]
  • Failure of the Ariane 5 rocket (1996)[8]
  • Mistakes in election result totalization[9]

Main topics

The study of validated numerics is divided into the following fields:

See also: numerical methods for ordinary differential equations, numerical linear algebra, numerical quadrature, and computational geometry

Tools

See also

References

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    Tucker, Warwick. (1999). "The Lorenz attractor exists." Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences-Series I-Mathematics, 328(12), 1197–1202.
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    Zin Arai, Hiroshi Kokubu, Paweãl Pilarczyk. Recent Development In Rigorous Computational Methods In Dynamical Systems.
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    Rump, Siegfried M. (1988). "Algorithms for verified inclusions: Theory and practice." In Reliability in computing (pp. 109–126). Academic Press.
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    Loh, Eugene; Walster, G. William (2002). Rump's example revisited. Reliable Computing, 8(3), 245-248.
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    Breuer, B.; Plum, Michael; McKenna, Patrick J. (2001). "Inclusions and existence proofs for solutions of a nonlinear boundary value problem by spectral numerical methods." In Topics in Numerical Analysis (pp. 61–77). Springer, Vienna.
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    Gidas, B.; Ni, Wei-Ming; Nirenberg, Louis (1979). "Symmetry and related properties via the maximum principle." Communications in Mathematical Physics, 68(3), 209–243.
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    "The Patriot Missile Failure".
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    ARIANE 5 Flight 501 Failure, http://sunnyday.mit.edu/nasa-class/Ariane5-report.doc
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    Rounding error changes Parliament makeup
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    Yamamoto, T. (1984). Error bounds for approximate solutions of systems of equations. Japan Journal of Applied Mathematics, 1(1), 157.
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    Johansson, Fredrik (2015). Rigorous high-precision computation of the Hurwitz zeta function and its derivatives. Numerical Algorithms, 69(2), 253-270.
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    Miyajima, S. (2019). Verified computation for the matrix principal logarithm. Linear Algebra and its Applications, 569, 38-61.
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    Miyajima, S. (2019). Verified computation of the matrix exponential. Advances in Computational Mathematics, 45(1), 137-152.
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    Johansson, Fredrik (2017). Arb: efficient arbitrary-precision midpoint-radius interval arithmetic. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 66(8), 1281-1292.
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Further reading

  • Validated Numerics for Pedestrians
  • Reliable Computing, An open electronic journal devoted to numerical computations with guaranteed accuracy, bounding of ranges, mathematical proofs based on floating-point arithmetic, and other theory and applications of interval arithmetic and directed rounding.
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