A walk through energy, discrepancy, numerical integration and group invariant measures on measurable subsets of Euclidean space (Q937179)

The paper starts by recalling some results obtained by Damelin, Hickernell, Ragozin and Zeng in connection with the equivalence of discrepancy and energy and their relationship to quadrature estimates over measurable subsets of Euclidean space and for integrands defined on such type of subsets. The theory presented provides an interpretation of the best design for numerical integration as one with minimum energy. Next, the author announces recent results obtained by Damelin, Grabner, Levesley, Ragozin and Sun which derive quadrature estimates on compact homogeneous manifolds embedded in Euclidian spaces, via energy functionals associated with a class of group-invariant kernels which are generalizations of zonal kernels on the spheres and radial kernels in euclidian spaces. The problem of calculating the equilibrium measure, which play a crucial role in the distribution of quadrature, the interpolatory and minimal energy points, zeroes of orthogonal and other extremal polynomials are also discussed.