Orthogonal polynomials and cubature formulae on balls, simplices, and spheres (Q5929306)

This nice survey paper treats recent developments on orthogonal polynomials (OP's) as they are used for cubature formulae on the unit ball \(B^d\), the standard simplex \(T^d\) and the unit sphere \(S^d\). As an orthogonal basis is no longer unique, the abundance of possibilities has mainly led to a separate treatment of the orthogonal polynomials on different regions. The relation between spherical harmonics and families of orthogonal polynomials, however, shows that there exists a close relation between the main types of interest. Roughly speaking, a basis of OP's on the simplex \(T^d\) is equivalent under a simple transformation to a basis of OP's on \(B^d\) that are invariant under sign changes, and a basis of OP's on \(B^d\) is equivalent to a basis of OP's on \(S^d\) that are even in one of the variables. In the proofs (given in the references) invariance under certain groups plays an important role. Also the author discusses the so-called \textit{Lebedev} conjecture on the existence of some special cubature formulae on \(S^2\) that are invariant under the octahedral group. The paper contains a list of 56 references of which 28 have been/will be published after 1991!