SPHERE_LEBEDEV_RULE
Quadrature Rules for the Unit Sphere

SPHERE_LEBEDEV_RULE is a MATLAB library which computes a Lebedev quadrature rule for the unit sphere.

Vyacheslav Lebedev determined a family of 65 quadrature rules for the unit sphere, increasing in precision from 3 to 131, by 2 each time. This software library computes any one of a subset of 32 of these rules.

Each rule is defined as a list of N values of theta, phi, and w. Here:

Of course, each pair of values (thetai, phii) has a corresponding Cartesian representation:

xi = cos ( thetai ) * sin ( phii )
yi = sin ( thetai ) * sin ( phii )
zi = cos ( phii )
which may be more useful when evaluating integrands.

The integral of a function f(x,y,z) over the surface of the unit sphere can be approximated by

integral f(x,y,z) = 4 * pi * sum ( 1 <= i <= N ) f(xi,yi,zi)

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

SPHERE_LEBEDEV_RULE is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.

Related Programs:

SPHERE_CVT, a MATLAB library which creates a mesh of well-separated points on a unit sphere using Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations.

SPHERE_DESIGN_RULE, a FORTRAN90 library which returns point sets on the surface of the unit sphere, known as "designs", which can be useful for estimating integrals on the surface, among other uses.

SPHERE_GRID, a MATLAB library which provides a number of ways of generating grids of points, or of points and lines, or of points and lines and faces, over the unit sphere.

SPHERE_LEBEDEV_RULE, a dataset directory which contains sets of points on a sphere which can be used for quadrature rules of a known precision;

SPHERE_LEBEDEV_RULE_DISPLAY, a MATLAB program which reads a file defining a Lebedev quadrature rule for the sphere and displays the point locations.

SPHERE_QUAD, a MATLAB library which approximates an integral over the surface of the unit sphere by applying a triangulation to the surface;

SPHERE_VORONOI, a MATLAB program which computes and plots the Voronoi diagram of points on the unit sphere.

SPHERE_XYZ_DISPLAY, a MATLAB program which reads XYZ information defining points in 3D, and displays a unit sphere and the points in the MATLAB 3D graphics window.

SPHERE_XYZ_DISPLAY_OPENGL, a C++ program which reads XYZ information defining points in 3D, and displays a unit sphere and the points, using OpenGL.

SPHERE_XYZF_DISPLAY, a MATLAB program which reads XYZF information defining points and faces, and displays a unit sphere, the points, and the faces, in the MATLAB 3D graphics window. This can be used, for instance, to display Voronoi diagrams or Delaunay triangulations on the unit sphere.

Reference:

  1. Axel Becke,
    A multicenter numerical integration scheme for polyatomic molecules,
    Journal of Chemical Physics,
    Volume 88, Number 4, 15 February 1988, pages 2547-2553.
  2. Vyacheslav Lebedev, Dmitri Laikov,
    A quadrature formula for the sphere of the 131st algebraic order of accuracy,
    Russian Academy of Sciences Doklady Mathematics,
    Volume 59, Number 3, 1999, pages 477-481.
  3. Vyacheslav Lebedev,
    A quadrature formula for the sphere of 59th algebraic order of accuracy,
    Russian Academy of Sciences Doklady Mathematics,
    Volume 50, 1995, pages 283-286.
  4. Vyacheslav Lebedev, A.L. Skorokhodov,
    Quadrature formulas of orders 41, 47, and 53 for the sphere,
    Russian Academy of Sciences Doklady Mathematics,
    Volume 45, 1992, pages 587-592.
  5. Vyacheslav Lebedev,
    Spherical quadrature formulas exact to orders 25-29,
    Siberian Mathematical Journal,
    Volume 18, 1977, pages 99-107.
  6. Vyacheslav Lebedev,
    Quadratures on a sphere,
    Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics,
    Volume 16, 1976, pages 10-24.
  7. Vyacheslav Lebedev,
    Values of the nodes and weights of ninth to seventeenth order Gauss-Markov quadrature formulae invariant under the octahedron group with inversion,
    Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics,
    Volume 15, 1975, pages 44-51.

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Last revised on 14 September 2010.