This paper studies the cardinal interpolation operators associated with the general multiquadrics,
? α, c (
x)=(∥
x∥
2 +
c 2)
α ,
\(x\in \mathbb {R}^{d}\). These operators take the form
$$\mathcal{I}_{\alpha,c}\mathbf{y}(x) = \sum\limits_{j\in\mathbb{Z}^{d}}y_{j}L_{\alpha,c}(x-j),\quad\mathbf{y}=(y_{j})_{j\in\mathbb{Z}^{d}},\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^{d}, $$
where
L α, c is a fundamental function formed by integer translates of
? α, c which satisfies the interpolatory condition
\(L_{\alpha ,c}(k) = \delta _{0,k}, k\in \mathbb {Z}^{d}\). We consider recovery results for interpolation of bandlimited functions in higher dimensions by limiting the parameter
\(c\to \infty \). In the univariate case, we consider the norm of the operator
\(\mathcal {I}_{\alpha ,c}\) acting on
? p spaces as well as prove decay rates for
L α, c using a detailed analysis of the derivatives of its Fourier transform,
\(\widehat {L_{\alpha ,c}}\).