Equidistribution of Fekete points on the sphere

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Abstract: The Fekete points are the points that maximize a Vandermonde-type determinant that appears in the polynomial Lagrange interpolation formula. They are well suited points for interpolation formulas and numerical integration. We prove the asymptotic equidistribution of the Fekete points in the sphere. The way we proceed is by showing their connection with other array of points, the Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund arrays and the interpolating arrays, that have been studied recently.


Let \(\Pi_L\) be the space of spherical harmonics of degree \(\leq L\) with a basis \(\{Q_1^L, \dots,Q_{\pi_L}^L\}\). The points maximizing \(|\det (Q_i^L(x_j))_{i,j=1}^{\pi_L}|\) are called Fekete points of degree \(L\) for the sphere \({\mathbb S}^d\). Fekete points are well-suited points for cubature and interpolation formulas [see \textit{I. H.~Sloan} and \textit{R. S.~Womersley}, Adv. Comput. Math. 21, No. 1--2, 107--125 (2004; Zbl 1055.65038)]. Based on the connection of Fekete points with other arrays of points, namely the Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund arrays and interpolating arrays, the authors show the asymptotic equistribution of Fekete points on \({\mathbb S}^d\) for \(L\to \infty\).




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