A lower bound for the worst-case cubature error on spheres of arbitrary dimension |
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Authors: | Kerstin Hesse |
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Institution: | (1) School of Mathematics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia |
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Abstract: | This paper is concerned with numerical integration on the unit sphere Sr of dimension r≥2 in the Euclidean space ℝr+1. We consider the worst-case cubature error, denoted by E(Qm;Hs(Sr)), of an arbitrary m-point cubature rule Qm for functions in the unit ball of the Sobolev space Hs(Sr), where s>, and show that The positive constant cs,r in the estimate depends only on the sphere dimension r≥2 and the index s of the Sobolev space Hs(Sr). This result was previously only known for r=2, in which case the estimate is order optimal. The method of proof is constructive: we construct for each Qm a `bad' function fm, that is, a function which vanishes in all nodes of the cubature rule and for which Our proof uses a packing of the sphere Sr with spherical caps, as well as an interpolation result between Sobolev spaces of different indices. |
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Keywords: | Primary 41A55 Secondary 46B70 46E22 46E35 52C17 65D30 65D32 |
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