Spherical cubature formulas in Sobolev spaces (Q2400732)
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Spherical cubature formulas in Sobolev spaces (English)
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30 August 2017
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Let \(S_{n-1}\subset {\mathbb R}^n\), \(n\geq 2\), be the unit sphere. Assume that \(\varphi\) belongs to the Sobolev space \(H^s(S_{n-1})\), \(s>(n-1)/2\). The author investigates spherical cubature formulas \[ \sum_{j=1}^N c_j\, \varphi(\theta_j) \] for the spherical mean of \(\varphi\) over \(S_{n-1}\), where \(\theta_j \in S_{n-1}\), \(j=1,\dots,N\), are nodes and where the weights \(c_j\) fulfil \(\sum_{j=1}^N c_j = 1\). Using expansions of spherical harmonics and Gegenbauer polynomials, it is shown that among all of these spherical cubature formulas, there exists exactly one cubature formula with minimal norm of the error. The weights \(c_j\) of the optimal spherical cubature formula are unique solutions of a certain linear system.
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cubature formula
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optimal spherical cubature formula
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unit sphere
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spherical mean
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minimal norm of the error
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Sobolev space on unit sphere
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computation of weights
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spherical harmonics
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Gegenbauer polynomials
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