Macro-elements and stable local bases for splines on Clough-Tocher triangulations

Summary. Macro-elements of arbitrary smoothness are constructed on Clough-Tocher triangle splits. These elements can be used for solving boundary-value problems or for interpolation of Hermite data, and are shown to be optimal with respect to spline degree. We conjecture they are also optimal with respect to the number of degrees of freedom. The construction provides local bases for certain superspline spaces defined over Clough-Tocher refinements of arbitrary triangulations. These bases are shown to be stable as a function of the smallest angle in the triangulation, which in turn implies that the associated spline spaces have optimal order approximation power. Received November 18, 1999 / Published online October 16, 2000     

Smooth macro-elements on Powell-Sabin-12 splits

Macro-elements of smoothness are constructed on Powell- Sabin- splits of a triangle for all . These new elements complement those recently constructed on Powell-Sabin- splits and can be used to construct convenient superspline spaces with stable local bases and full approximation power that can be applied to the solution of boundary-value problems and for interpolation of Hermite data.

     

New bases for Triebel-Lizorkin and Besov spaces

We give a new method for construction of unconditional bases for general classes of Triebel-Lizorkin and Besov spaces. These include the , , potential, and Sobolev spaces. The main feature of our method is that the character of the basis functions can be prescribed in a very general way. In particular, if is any sufficiently smooth and rapidly decaying function, then our method constructs a basis whose elements are linear combinations of a fixed (small) number of shifts and dilates of the single function . Typical examples of such 's are the rational function and the Gaussian function This paper also shows how the new bases can be utilized in nonlinear approximation.

     

Approximation by local trigonometric splines

For the class of 1-periodic functions, we use the linear noninterpolating method of trigonometric spline approximation possessing extremal and smoothing properties and locally inheriting the monotonicity of the initial data, i.e., the values of a function from at the points of a uniform grid. The approximation error is calculated exactly for this class of functions in the uniform metric. It coincides with the Kolmogorov and Konovalov widths.Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, vol. 77, no. 3, 2005, pp. 354–363.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by K. V. Kostousov, V. T. Shevaldin.This revised version was published online in April 2005 with a corrected issue number.     

Wavelet bases on a manifold

Using the decomposition method, we present in this paper constructions of multiresolution analyses on a compact Riemannian manifold M of dimension n(n∈N). These analyses are generated by a finite number of basic functions and are adapted to the study of the Sobolev spaces H¹(M) and .     

Compactly supported wavelet bases for Sobolev spaces

In this paper we investigate compactly supported wavelet bases for Sobolev spaces. Starting with a pair of compactly supported refinable functions φ and in satisfying a very mild condition, we provide a general principle for constructing a wavelet ψ such that the wavelets ψ_jk:=2^j/2ψ(2^j·−k) ( ) form a Riesz basis for . If, in addition, φ lies in the Sobolev space , then the derivatives 2^j/2ψ^(m)(2^j·−k) ( ) also form a Riesz basis for . Consequently, is a stable wavelet basis for the Sobolev space . The pair of φ and are not required to be biorthogonal or semi-orthogonal. In particular, φ and can be a pair of B-splines. The added flexibility on φ and allows us to construct wavelets with relatively small supports.     

A note on cones associated to Schauder bases

We study the existence of infima of subsets in Banach spaces ordered by normal cones associated to shrinking Schauder bases. Under these conditions we prove the existence of infima for a class of subsets verifying a weakly compactness property. Moreover we prove that a normal cone associated to a Schauder basis in a reflexive Banach space is strongly minihedral extending the known result for unconditional Schauder bases. Several examples are also discussed. Miguel Sama: The work of this author is partially supported by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain), project MTM2006-02629 and Ingenio Mathematica (i-MATH) CSD2006-00032 (ConsoliderIngenio 2010).     

Filling polygonal holes with minimal energy surfaces on Powell-Sabin type triangulations

In this paper we present two different methods for filling in a hole in an explicit 3D surface, defined by a smooth function f in a part of a polygonal domain D⊂R². We obtain the final reconstructed surface over the whole domain D. We do the filling in two different ways: discontinuous and continuous. In the discontinuous case, we fill the hole with a function in a Powell-Sabin spline space that minimizes a linear combination of the usual seminorms in an adequate Sobolev space, and approximates (in the least squares sense) the values of f and those of its normal derivatives at an adequate set of points. In the continuous case, we will first replace f outside the hole by a smoothing bivariate spline s_f, and then we fill the hole also with a Powell-Sabin spline minimizing a linear combination of given seminorms. In both cases, we obtain existence and uniqueness of solutions and we present some graphical examples, and, in the continuous case, we also give a local convergence result.     

On weak bases

In this paper, we give an affirmative answer to Tanaka's question: Is a space X with a σ-hereditarily closure-preserving weak base g-metrizable? [Proc. Aroc. Amer. Math. Soc. 112 (1991) 283] and a negative answer to S. Lin's question: Is every weak base of a topological space a k-network? [S. Lin, Generalized Metric Spaces and Maps, Science Press, 1995, Problem 1.6.20]. We also discuss mapping theorems on weak bases and the product of weak bases.     

On moduli spaces for stable bundles on quadrics

We investigate the relation between stable representations of quivers and stable sheaves. A construction of thin smooth compact moduli spaces for stable sheaves on quadrics based on this relation is presented. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol 62, No. 6, pp. 843–864, December, 1997 Translated by S. K. Lando     

Some performances of local bivariate quadratic C1 quasi-interpolating splines on nonuniform type-2 triangulations

We investigate spline quasi-interpolants defined by C¹ bivariate quadratic B-splines on nonuniform type-2 triangulations and by discrete linear functionals based on a fixed number of triangular mesh-points either in the support or close to the support of such B-splines.We show they can approximate a real function and its partial derivatives up to an optimal order and we derive local and global upper bounds.We also present some numerical and graphical results.     

Orthogonal systems of spline wavelets as unconditional bases in Sobolev spaces

We exhibit the necessary range for which functions in the Sobolev spaces $L_p^s$ can be represented as an unconditional sum of orthonormal spline wavelet systems, such as the Battle–Lemarié wavelets. We also consider the natural extensions to Triebel–Lizorkin spaces. This builds upon, and is a generalization of, previous work of Seeger and Ullrich, where analogous results were established for the Haar wavelet system.     

Counting bitangents with stable maps

This paper is an elementary introduction to the theory of moduli spaces of curves and maps. As an application to enumerative geometry, we show how to count the number of bitangent lines to a projective plane curve of degree d by doing intersection theory on moduli spaces.     

Some recurrence formulas for box splines and cone splines

A degree elevation formula for multivariate simplex splines was given by Micchelli and extended to hold ]or multivariate Dirichlet splines in [8]. We report similar formulae for multivariate cone splines and box splsplines andines. To this end, we utilize a relation due to Dahmen and Micchelli that connects box cone splines and a degree reduction formulagiven by Cohen, Lyche, and Riesenfeld in [2].     

Flat wavelet bases adapted to the homogeneous Sobolev spaces

We present a construction of “flat wavelet bases” adapted to the homogeneous Sobolev spaces ?^s (?ⁿ ). They solve the problem of the phenomenon of infrared divergence which appears for usual wavelet expansions in ?^s (?ⁿ ): these bases remove the divergence in the case s – n /2 ? ? since they are also bases of the realization of ?^s (?ⁿ ). In the critical case s – n /2 ∈ ?, they provide a confinement of the divergence in a “small” space. (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Towards existence of piecewise Chebyshevian B-spline bases

The paper addresses the problem of how to ensure existence of blossoms in the context of piecewise spaces built from joining different extended Chebyshev spaces by means of connection matrices. The interest of this issue lies in the fact that existence of blossoms is equivalent to existence of B-spline bases in all associated spline spaces. As is now classical, blossoms are defined in a geometric way by means of intersections of osculating flats. In such a piecewise context, intersecting a number of osculating flats is a tough proposition. In the present paper, we show that blossoms exist if an only if Bézier points exist, which significantly simplifies the problem. Existence of blossoms also proves to be equivalent to existence of Bernstein bases. In order to establish the latter results, we start by extending to the piecewise context some results which are classical for extended Chebyshev spaces. AMS subject classification 65D17, 65D07     

Algebraic splines in locally convex spaces

In a vector space of continuous functions, a variational solution of a finite system of linear functional equations is found. The locally convex topology on the vector space and the properties of the objective functional required for obtaining the solution in the form of a decomposition in the basis dual to the family of functionals of the system are determined. The basis elements are calculated exactly and called basis algebraic splines; their linear span is called the space of algebraic splines in the corresponding locally convex space.Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, vol. 77, no. 3, 2005, pp. 339–353.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by A. P. Kolesnikov.This revised version was published online in April 2005 with a corrected issue number.     

spline wavelets on triangulations

In this paper we investigate spline wavelets on general triangulations. In particular, we are interested in wavelets generated from piecewise quadratic polynomials. By using the Powell-Sabin elements, we set up a nested family of spaces of quadratic splines, which are suitable for multiresolution analysis of Besov spaces. Consequently, we construct wavelet bases on general triangulations and give explicit expressions for the wavelets on the three-direction mesh. A general theory is developed so as to verify the global stability of these wavelets in Besov spaces. The wavelet bases constructed in this paper will be useful for numerical solutions of partial differential equations.

     

Wavelet bases in generalized Besov spaces

In this paper we obtain a wavelet representation in (inhomogeneous) Besov spaces of generalized smoothness via interpolation techniques. As consequence, we show that compactly supported wavelets of Daubechies type provide an unconditional Schauder basis in these spaces when the integrability parameters are finite.