Efficient cubature rules

Abstract

73 new cubature rules are found for three standard multidimensional integrals with spherically symmetric regions and weights, using direct search with a numerical zero-finder. All but four of the new rules have fewer integration points than known rules of the same degree, and twenty are within three points of M{\"o}ller's lower bound. Most have all positive coefficients and most have some symmetry, including some supported by one or two concentric spheres. They include degree 7 formulas for integration over the sphere and Gaussian-weighted integrals over all space, each in 6 and 7 dimensions, with 127 and 183 points, respectively.