On the Lipschitz continuity of the Spherical Cap Discrepancy around generic point sets

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Main Authors: Heitsch, Holger, Henrion, René
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author Heitsch, Holger
Henrion, René
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Henrion, René
contents The spherical cap discrepancy is a prominent measure of uniformity for sets on the d-dimensional sphere. It is particularly important for estimating the integration error for certain classes of functions on the sphere. Building on a recently proven explicit formula for the spherical discrepancy, we show as a main result of this paper that this discrepancy is Lipschitz continuous in a neighbourhood of so-called generic point sets (as they are typical outcomes of Monte-Carlo sampling). This property may have some impact (both algorithmically and theoretically for deriving necessary optimality conditions) on optimal quantization, i.e., on finding point sets of fixed size on the sphere having minimum spherical discrepancy.
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spellingShingle On the Lipschitz continuity of the Spherical Cap Discrepancy around generic point sets
Heitsch, Holger
Henrion, René
Combinatorics
Optimization and Control
11K38, 49K30
The spherical cap discrepancy is a prominent measure of uniformity for sets on the d-dimensional sphere. It is particularly important for estimating the integration error for certain classes of functions on the sphere. Building on a recently proven explicit formula for the spherical discrepancy, we show as a main result of this paper that this discrepancy is Lipschitz continuous in a neighbourhood of so-called generic point sets (as they are typical outcomes of Monte-Carlo sampling). This property may have some impact (both algorithmically and theoretically for deriving necessary optimality conditions) on optimal quantization, i.e., on finding point sets of fixed size on the sphere having minimum spherical discrepancy.
title On the Lipschitz continuity of the Spherical Cap Discrepancy around generic point sets
topic Combinatorics
Optimization and Control
11K38, 49K30
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05967