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A new version of the Fast Multipole Method for the Laplace equation in three dimensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Leslie Greengard
Affiliation:
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA
Vladimir Rokhlin
Affiliation:
Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

Abstract

We introduce a new version of the Fast Multipole Method for the evaluation of potential fields in three dimensions. It is based on a new diagonal form for translation operators and yields high accuracy at a reasonable cost.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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