Sobol Sequence - Construction of The Sobol Sequence

Construction of The Sobol Sequence

The algorithm for generating Sobol sequences is clearly explained in Bratley and Fox, Algorithm 659

To generate the j-th component of the points in a Sobol sequence, we need to choose a primitive polynomial of some degree sj over the field GF(2)

P_{j} = x^{s_j} + a_{1,j} x^{s_{j}-1} + a_{2,j} x^{s_{j}-2} + \cdots + a_{s_{j}-1,j} x + 1,

where the coefficients a1,j, a2,j, ..., asj−1,j are either 0 or 1. The error bounds for Sobol sequences given in indicate that we should use primitive polynomials of as low a degree as possible.

A sequence of positive integers {m1,j, m2,j, ...} are defined by the recurrence relation

m_{k,j} = 2a_{1,j}m_{k-1,j} \oplus 2^2a_{2,j}m_{k-2,j} \oplus \cdots \oplus 2^{s_j-1}a_{s_j-1,j} m_{k-s_j+1,j} \oplus 2^{s_j}m_{k-s_j ,j} \oplus m_{k-s_j ,j},

where is the bit-by-bit exclusive-or operator. The initial values m1,j, m2,j, ..., msj,j can be chosen freely provided that each mk,j, 1 ≤ k ≤ sj, is odd and less than 2k.

The so-called direction numbers {v1,j, v2,j, . . .} are defined by

v_{k,j} = \frac{m_{k,j}}{2^k}.

Then xi,j, the j-th component of the i-th point in a Sobol sequence, is given by

x_{i,j}=i_{1}v_{1,j} \oplus i_{2}v_{2,j} \oplus\cdots,

where ik is the k-th binary digit of i = (. . . i3i2i1)2. Here the notation (·)2 denotes the binary representation of numbers.

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