Hölder regularity of geometric subdivision schemes (Q896991)

The authors develop a general approach for the analysis of geometric subdivision schemes. The paper begins with a description of basic notations and the introduction of the concept of relative distortion. The main object on the discussion is a novel class of geometric subdivision schemes called GLUE-scheme (geometric, local, uniform, equilinear). Further, the concept of straightening is introduced and used to quantify the decay of relative distortion. The three different manifestations of straightening are related to continuity, differentiability and first-order Hölder regularity of limit curves with respect to a natural uniform parametrization. It is shown that the derivative of the subdivision map correspond to two linear subdivision schemes and that the worse of these two schemes determines its first-order Hölder regularity. Implementation of the universal procedure and brief discussion the results on circle-preserving subdivisions are presented too.