RootFinderAlgorithms.h

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// Author: L. Moneta, A. Zsenei   08/2005

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// Header file for GSL ROOT Finder Algorithms
//
// Created by: moneta  at Sun Nov 14 14:07:50 2004
//
// Last update: Sun Nov 14 14:07:50 2004
//
#ifndef ROOT_Math_GSLRootFinderAlgorithms
#define ROOT_Math_GSLRootFinderAlgorithms


#include "Math/GSLRootFinder.h"

#include "Math/GSLRootFinderDeriv.h"

namespace ROOT {
namespace Math {

  /**
     Root-Finding Algorithms

  */

namespace Roots {

//________________________________________________________________________________________________________
     /**
        Roots::Bisection
      Bisection algorithm, simplest algorithm for bracketing the roots of a function, but slowest one.
      See the <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Root-Bracketing-Algorithms.html">GSL manual</A> for more information
      @ingroup RootFinders
     */

   class Bisection : public GSLRootFinder {

   public:

      Bisection();
      virtual ~Bisection();

   private:
      // usually copying is non trivial, so we make this unaccessible

      Bisection(const Bisection &);
      Bisection & operator = (const Bisection &);

   };

//________________________________________________________________________________________________________
   /**
      False Position algorithm based on linear interpolation.
      See the <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Root-Bracketing-Algorithms.html">GSL manual</A> for more information
      @ingroup RootFinders
   */

   class FalsePos : public GSLRootFinder {

   public:

      FalsePos();
      virtual ~FalsePos();

   private:
      // usually copying is non trivial, so we make this unaccessible
      FalsePos(const FalsePos &);
      FalsePos & operator = (const FalsePos &);

   };



//________________________________________________________________________________________________________
   /**
      Brent-Dekker algorithm which combines an interpolation strategy with the bisection algorithm
      See the <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Root-Bracketing-Algorithms.html">
      GSL manual</A> for more information

      @ingroup RootFinders
   */

   class Brent : public GSLRootFinder {

   public:

      Brent();
      virtual ~Brent();

   private:
      // usually copying is non trivial, so we make this unaccessible
      Brent(const Brent &);
      Brent & operator = (const Brent &);

   };


   //----------------------------------------------------------------------
   // algorithm with derivatives
   //----------------------------------------------------------------------

//________________________________________________________________________________________________________
   /**
      a Newton algorithm, which computes the derivative at each iteration
      See the <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Root-Finding-Algorithms-using-Derivatives.html">
      GSL manual</A> for more information

      @ingroup RootFinders
   */

   class Newton : public GSLRootFinderDeriv {

   public:

      Newton();
      virtual ~Newton();

   private:
      // usually copying is non trivial, so we make this unaccessible
      Newton(const Newton &);
      Newton & operator = (const Newton &);

   };


//________________________________________________________________________________________________________
   /**
      \a Secant algorithm, simplified version of Newton method, which does not require the derivative at every step.
      See the <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Root-Finding-Algorithms-using-Derivatives.html">
      GSL manual</A> for more information
      @ingroup RootFinders
   */

   class Secant : public GSLRootFinderDeriv {

   public:

      Secant();
      virtual ~Secant();

   private:
      // usually copying is non trivial, so we make this unaccessible
      Secant(const Secant &);
      Secant & operator = (const Secant &);

   };

//________________________________________________________________________________________________________
   /**
      \a Steffenson method, providing the fastes convergence.
      See the <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Root-Finding-Algorithms-using-Derivatives.html">
      GSL manual</A> for more information

      @ingroup RootFinders
   */

   class Steffenson : public GSLRootFinderDeriv {

   public:

      Steffenson();
      virtual ~Steffenson();

   private:
      // usually copying is non trivial, so we make this unaccessible
      Steffenson(const Steffenson &);
      Steffenson & operator = (const Steffenson &);

   };


}

} // namespace Math
} // namespace ROOT


#endif /* ROOT_Math_GSLRootFinderAlgorithms */