Marcinkiewicz--Zygmund inequalities for scattered data on polygons
Hao-Ning Wu
TL;DR
This work addresses constructing positive-weight quadrature rules for polygonal domains using scattered data to establish Marcinkiewicz--Zygmund inequalities for $1\le p\le \infty$. The authors triangulate the polygon and build a degree-$d$ exact quadrature on triangles via Bernstein--Bézier polynomials, obtaining triangle weights $w_{ijk}$ and aggregating to polygon weights $w_j$ to achieve MZ-type control on polygons. They provide exactness for polynomials up to degree $d$ on triangles, derive MZ inequalities for $N\le d$ (and $p=\infty$ via analogous bounds), and extend the framework to polygons with mesh-density dependent conditions and constants tied to the boundary geometry, supported by error analyses and numerical tests. The results yield a practical, geometry-aware approach that relaxes strict quadrature exactness while preserving stable $L^p$ control for polygonal domains with scattered data.
Abstract
Given a set of scattered points on a regular or irregular 2D polygon, we aim to employ them as quadrature points to construct a quadrature rule that establishes Marcinkiewicz--Zygmund inequalities on this polygon. The quadrature construction is aided by Bernstein--Bézier polynomials. For this purpose, we first propose a quadrature rule on triangles with an arbitrary degree of exactness and establish Marcinkiewicz--Zygmund estimates for 3-, 10-, and 21-point quadrature rules on triangles. Based on the 3-point quadrature rule on triangles, we then propose the desired quadrature rule on the polygon that satisfies Marcinkiewicz--Zygmund inequalities for $1\leq p \leq \infty$. As a byproduct, we provide error analysis for both quadrature rules on triangles and polygons. Numerical results further validate our construction.
