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    Bilinear quadratures for inner products

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    A bilinear quadrature numerically evaluates a continuous bilinear map, such as the L2L^2 inner product, on continuous ff and gg belonging to known finite-dimensional function spaces. Such maps arise in Galerkin methods for differential and integral equations. The construction of bilinear quadratures over arbitrary domains in Rd\mathbb{R}^d is presented. In one dimension, integration rules of this type include Gaussian quadrature for polynomials and the trapezoidal rule for trigonometric polynomials as special cases. A numerical procedure for constructing bilinear quadratures is developed and validated
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