Quantitative Constraints for Stable Sampling on the Sphere

Abstract

We derive quantitative volume constraints for sampling measures $\mu_t$ on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ that satisfy Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund inequalities of order $t$. Using precise localization estimates for Jacobi polynomials, we obtain explicit upper and lower bounds on the $\mu_t$-mass of geodesic balls at the natural scale $t^{-1}$. Whereas constants are typically left implicit in the literature, we place special emphasis on fully explicit constants, and the results are genuinely quantitative. Moreover, these bounds yield quantitative constraints for the $s$-dimensional Hausdorff volume of Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund sampling sets and, in particular, optimal lower bounds for the length of Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund curves.