Quadrature over the sphere (Q2388707)

The paper is devoted to study a quadrature rule over the sphere, when the integrand has a singular behaviour in a polar region. The important idea of authors is to express the integrand in spherical coordinates. This transformation uses a grading parameter \(q\). Next the tapezoidal rule in spherical coordinates is applied and the convergence of the obtained quadrature formula is studied in the following cases: (i) \(2q\) is not an integer; (ii) \(2q\) is an odd integer. In the first case the asymptotic behaviour of the remainder term of quadratue formula is studied while in the second the convergence of the method is proved.