Bounds for the sampling discretization error and their applications to universal sampling discretization

In the first part of the paper we study absolute error of sampling discretization of the integral $L_p$-norm for functional classes of continuous functions. We use chaining technique to provide a general bound for the error of sampling discretization of the $L_p$-norm on a given functional class in terms of entropy numbers in the uniform norm of this class. The general result yields new error bounds for sampling discretization of the $L_p$-norms on classes of multivariate functions with mixed smoothness. In the second part of the paper we apply the obtained bounds to study universal sampling discretization and the problem of optimal sampling recovery.