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A simple Proof of Stolarsky's Invariance Principle

Numerical Analysis 2014-02-17 v1

Abstract

Stolarsky [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (1973), 575--582] showed a beautiful relation that balances the sums of distances of points on the unit sphere and their spherical cap L2\mathbb{L}_2-discrepancy to give the distance integral of the uniform measure on the sphere a potential-theoretical quantity (Bj{\"o}rck [Ark. Mat. 3 (1956), 255--269]). Read differently it expresses the worst-case numerical integration error for functions from the unit ball in a certain Hilbert space setting in terms of the L2\mathbb{L}_2-discrepancy and vice versa (first author and Womersley [Preprint]). In this note we give a simple proof of the invariance principle using reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1101.4448,
  title  = {A simple Proof of Stolarsky's Invariance Principle},
  author = {Johann S. Brauchart and Josef Dick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.4448},
  year   = {2014}
}