Higher-order asymptotic expansion with error estimate for the multidimensional Laplace-type integral under perturbations

Abstract: We consider the asymptotic behavior of the multidimensional Laplace-type integral with a perturbed phase function. Under suitable assumptions, we derive a higher-order asymptotic expansion with an error estimate, generalizing some previous results including Laplace's method. The key points of the proof are a precise asymptotic analysis based on a lot of detailed Taylor expansions, and a careful consideration of the effects of the perturbations on the Hessian matrix of the phase function.