Minimal cubature rules and polynomial interpolation in two variables. II. (Q730192)

Cubature rules for minimal numbers of nodes in two dimensions are sought in this paper. Here, the integration takes place over a unit cube and a very general class of weight functions is admitted to be used with this integration. Two approaches to this problem supply a minimal cubature rule without explicitly stating the coefficients on one hand (i.e., its existence is shown in Theorem~3.1, while a general statement about necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of minimal cubature rules of odd degree is given in Theorem~2.1), and provide another one almost or near minimal (i.e., minimal up to one degree) including explicitly calculated coefficients in Theorem~3.4. Here again, a general statement about sufficient conditions for the existence of near minimal cubature rules of odd degree is given in Theorem~2.2. On top of that, the paper analyses Lagrange interpolation at the almost minimal nodes too. That is, the Lagrange polynomials and Lebesgue number are given (Theorems~4.2 and 4.3, respectively).