Divergence-free interpolation of tangential vector fields via matrix-valued kernels

DOI10.48550/arXiv.2608.05547MaRDI QIDQ7284692zbMATH OpenarXivFDO

Authors Zhengjie Sun, Biao Huang, Lishuo Dong

Publication date 6 August 2026

Published in arXiv

Tldr We construct a family of divergence-free interpolation methods for tangential vector fields on the unit sphere from scalar radial kernels in Euclidean space. The construction separates the geometric enforcement of the divergence-free constraint from the choice of scalar generator, resulting in lower-order variants and explicit representations via vector spherical harmonics.

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.05547

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interpolation in approximation theory (41A05) Rate of convergence, degree of approximation (41A25) Harmonic analysis and spherical functions (43A90) Numerical radial basis function approximation (65D12)

arXiv classification

math.NA

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