Local Approximation on Manifolds Using Radial Functions and Polynomials

Abstract

The main focus of this paper is to give error estimates for interpolation on compact homogeneous manifolds, the sphere being an example of such a manifold. The notion of a radial function on the sphere is generalised to that of a spherical kernel on a compact homogeneous manifold. Reproducing kernel Hilbert space techniques are used to generate a pointwise error estimate for spherical kernel interpolation using a positive definite kernel. By exploiting the nice scaling properties of Lagrange polynomials in the tangent space, the error estimate is bounded above by a power of the point separation, recovering, in particular, the convergence rates for radial approximation on spheres.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP011997

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  • David L. Ragozin
  • Jeremy Levesley

Organizations

  • University of Washington

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Approximation (Mathematics)
  • Coefficients
  • Convergence
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Equations
  • Harmonic Analysis
  • Hilbert Space
  • Interpolation
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Polynomials
  • Spherical Harmonics
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  • Mathematics

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