STATE — An IMSL_FAURE pointer containing the structure created by the call to FAURE_INIT. The structure contains information about the sequence. The structure should be freed using FAURE_FREE after it is no longer needed. (Input/Output)
NEXT_PT — Vector of length NDIM containing the next point in the shuffled Faure sequence, where NDIM is the dimension of the hyper‑rectangle specified in FAURE_INIT. (Output)
Optional Arguments
IMSL_RETURN_SKIP — Returns the current point in the sequence. The sequence can be restarted by calling FAURE_INIT using this value for NSKIP, and using the same value for NDIM. (Input)
FORTRAN 90 Interface
Generic: CALLFAURE_NEXT (STATE, NEXT_PT[, …])
Specific: The specific interface names are S_FAURE_NEXT and D_FAURE_NEXT.
Description
Discrepancy measures the deviation from uniformity of a point set.
The discrepancy of the point set x1, ..., xn∈[0,1]d, d≥1, is defined
where the supremum is over all subsets of [0, 1]d of the form
λ is the Lebesque measure, and is the number of the xj contained in E.
The sequence x1, x2, … of points [0,1]d is a low‑discrepancy sequence if there exists a constant c(d), depending only on d, such that
for all n > 1.
Generalized Faure sequences can be defined for any prime base b≥d. The lowest bound for the discrepancy is obtained for the smallest prime b≥d, so the optional argument NBASE defaults to the smallest prime greater than or equal to the dimension.
The generalized Faure sequence x1, x2, …, is computed as follows:
Write the positive integer n in its b‑ary expansion,
where ai(n) are integers, .
The j‑th coordinate of xn is
The generator matrix for the series, , is defined to be
and ckd is an element of the Pascal matrix,
It is faster to compute a shuffled Faure sequence than to compute the Faure sequence itself. It can be shown that this shuffling preserves the low‑discrepancy property.
The shuffling used is the b‑ary Gray code. The function G(n) maps the positive integer n into the integer given by its b‑ary expansion.
The sequence computed by this function is x(G(n)), where x is the generalized Faure sequence.
Example
In this example, five points in the Faure sequence are computed. The points are in the three‑dimensional unit cube.
Note that FAURE_INIT is used to create a structure that holds the state of the sequence. Each call to FAURE_NEXT returns the next point in the sequence and updates the IMSL_FAURE structure. The final call to FAURE_FREE frees data items, stored in the structure, that were allocated by FAURE_INIT.
