In this paper, we study optimal recovery （reconstruction） of functions on the sphere in the average case setting. We obtain the asymptotic orders of average sampling numbers of a Sobolev space on the sphere with a Gaussian measure in the Lq （S^d-1） metric for 1 ≤ q ≤ ∞, and show that some worst-case asymptotically optimal algorithms are also asymptotically optimal in the average case setting in the Lq （S^d-1） metric for 1 ≤ q ≤ ∞.
We investigate the asymptotic behavior of the entropy numbers of Besov classes BBΩp,θ（Sd 1）of generalized smoothness on the sphere inL q（Sd 1）for 1≤p,q,θ≤∞,and get their asymptotic orders.We also obtain the exact orders of entropy numbers of Sobolev classesBWr p（Sd 1）inL q（Sd 1）whenpand/orqis equal to 1 or∞.This provides the last piece as far as exact orders of entropy numbers ofBWr p（Sd 1）inL q（Sd 1）are concerned.
