One Approach to the Computation of Asymptotics of Integrals of Rapidly Varying Functions

Abstract

We consider integrals of the form

\(I\left( {x,h} \right) = \frac{1}{{{{\left( {2\pi h} \right)}^{k/2}}}}\int_{{\mathbb{R}^k}} {f\left( {\frac{{S\left( {x,\theta } \right)}}{h},x,\theta } \right)} d\theta \)

, where h is a small positive parameter and S(x, θ) and f(τ, x, θ) are smooth functions of variables τ ∈ ℝ, x ∈ ℝⁿ, and θ ∈ ℝ^k; moreover, S(x, θ) is real-valued and f(τ, x, θ) rapidly decays as |τ| →∞. We suggest an approach to the computation of the asymptotics of such integrals as h → 0 with the use of the abstract stationary phase method.