Some observations regarding interpolants in the limit of flat radial basis functions (Q1433081)

The authors study here multivariate interpolants based on Radial Basis Functions (RBF) featuring a shape parameter \(\epsilon\). This study discusses theoretical and computational aspects as the \(\epsilon \rightarrow 0\) limit. It is conjectured that the Gaussian (GA) RBF interpolants will never diverge as \(\epsilon\to 0\). Strong evidence in support of this conjecture is given through various experiments with a numerical algorithm also described in the paper (cf. a forthcoming paper by B. Fornberg and G. Wright which is to appear in Comput. Math. Appl.).