Wr,p(R)-splines

In [3] Golomb describes, for 1 < p < ∞, the H^r,p(R)-extremal extension $\text{F}{}_1$ of a function $\text{?:E → R}$ (i.e., the H^r,p-spline with knots in E) and studies the cone $\text{H}{}_{1E}{}^{\mathrm{r,p}}$ of all such splines. We study the problem of determining when $\text{F}{}_1$ is in W^r,p ≡ H^r,p ∩ L^p. If $\text{F}{}_1\text{? W}{}^{\mathrm{r,p}}$, then $\text{F}{}_1$ is called a W^r,p-spline, and we denote by $\text{W}{}_{1E}{}^{\mathrm{r,p}}$ the cone of all such splines. If E is quasiuniform, then $\text{F}{}_1\text{? W}{}^{\mathrm{r,p}}$ if and only if . The cone $\text{W}{}_{1E}{}^{\mathrm{r,p}}$ with E quasiuniform is shown to be homeomorphic to l^p. Similarly, $\text{H}{}_{1E}{}^{\mathrm{r,p}}$ is homeomorphic to h^r,p. Approximation properties of the W^r,p-splines are studied and error bounds in terms of the mesh size $\text{¦ E ¦}$ are calculated. Restricting ourselves to the case p = 2 and to quasiuniform partitions E, the second integral relation is proved and better error bounds in terms of $\text{¦ E ¦}$ are derived.