Properties of product-type quadrature formulas

In this note some properties of the coefficient matrix associated with a product-interpolatory quadrature formula are determined and certain consequences of exactness of a product-type quadrature rule are deduced. For example, it is shown that the coefficient matrix has maximal rank and it is positive definite when the rule is symmetric. Conditions are stated under which a product-interpolatory rule reduces to a regular quadrature rule. A characterization of the error committed in applying a regular rule to a product of two functions is given.A portion of this research was carried out while the author was a Summer Faculty Research Participant at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.