A variational characterisation of spherical designs

  • Authors:
  • Ian H. Sloan;Robert S. Womersley

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia;School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Approximation Theory
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we first establish a new variational characterisation of spherical designs: it is shown that a set X"N={x"1,...,x"N}@?S^d, where S^d:={x@?R^d^+^1:@?"j"="1^dx"j^2=1}, is a spherical L-design if and only if a certain non-negative quantity A"L","N(X"N) vanishes. By combining this result with a known ''sampling theorem'' for the sphere, we obtain the main result, which is that if X"N@?S^d is a stationary point set of A"L","N whose ''mesh norm'' satisfies h"X"""N