SUBROUTINE DTHEP PURPOSE A SERIES EXPANSION IN HERMITE POLYNOMIALS WITH INDEPENDENT VARIABLE X IS TRANSFORMED TO A POLYNOMIAL WITH INDEPENDENT VARIABLE Z, WHERE X=A*Z+B USAGE CALL DTHEP(A,B,POL,N,C,WORK) DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS A - FACTOR OF LINEAR TERM IN GIVEN LINEAR TRANSFORMATION DOUBLE PRECISION VARIABLE B - CONSTANT TERM IN GIVEN LINEAR TRANSFORMATION DOUBLE PRECISION VARIABLE POL - COEFFICIENT VECTOR OF POLYNOMIAL (RESULTANT VALUE) COEFFICIENTS ARE ORDERED FROM LOW TO HIGH DOUBLE PRECISION VECTOR N - DIMENSION OF COEFFICIENT VECTOR POL AND C C - COEFFICIENT VECTOR OF GIVEN EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS ARE ORDERED FROM LOW TO HIGH POL AND C MAY BE IDENTICALLY LOCATED DOUBLE PRECISION VECTOR WORK - WORKING STORAGE OF DIMENSION 2*N DOUBLE PRECISION ARRAY REMARKS COEFFICIENT VECTOR C REMAINS UNCHANGED IF NOT COINCIDING WITH COEFFICIENT VECTOR POL. OPERATION IS BYPASSED IN CASE N LESS THAN 1. THE LINEAR TRANSFORMATION X=A*Z+B OR Z=(1/A)(X-B) TRANSFORMS THE RANGE (-C,C) IN X TO THE RANGE (ZL,ZR) IN Z WHERE ZL=-(C+B)/A AND ZR=(C-B)/A. FOR GIVEN ZL, ZR AND C WE HAVE A=2C/(ZR-ZL) AND B=-C(ZR+ZL)/(ZR-ZL) SUBROUTINES AND FUNCTION SUBPROGRAMS REQUIRED NONE METHOD THE TRANSFORMATION IS BASED ON THE RECURRENCE EQUATION FOR HERMITE POLYNOMIALS H(N,X) H(N+1,X)=2*(X*H(N,X)-N*H(N-1,X)), WHERE THE FIRST TERM IN BRACKETS IS THE INDEX THE SECOND IS THE ARGUMENT. STARTING VALUES ARE H(0,X)=1,H(1,X)=2*X. THE TRANSFORMATION IS IMPLICITLY DEFINED BY MEANS OF X=A*Z+B TOGETHER WITH SUM(POL(I)*Z**(I-1), SUMMED OVER I FROM 1 TO N) =SUM(C(I)*H(I-1,X), SUMMED OVER I FROM 1 TO N).