Optimal quadrature formulas with positive coefficients in \(L_2^{(m)}(0, 1)\) space (Q609197)

Let \(f \in L_2^{(m)}(0,\,1)\) be given, i.e. \(f: [0,\, 1] \to \mathbb R\) with \(f^{(m)}\in L_2(0,\,1)\). The authors consider quadrature formulas of the form \[ \int_0^1 f(x)\, dx \cong \sum_{j=0}^N c_j\, f(x_j) \] with non-equispaced nodes \(x_k = \eta_k/N\), \(x_{N-k} = 1 - \eta_k/N\) \((k = 0,\dots, t-1;\, 0\leq \eta_0 < \dots <\eta_{t-1} < t)\) and \(x_j = j/N\) \((j = t,\dots,N-t)\), where \(t = \lceil m/2 \rceil\) for \(m \in \mathbb N\). They determine explicit formulas for the coefficients \(c_j\) of optimal quadrature formulas in the Sobolev space \(L_2^{(m)}(0,\,1)\). For \(t=1\), \(\eta_0 = 0.205\), and \(m\in \{2,\, 3,\, \dots,\,14\}\), optimal quadrature formulas with positive coefficients \(c_j\) are computed.