Efficient function approximation on general bounded domains using wavelets on a cartesian grid

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Abstract: Fourier extension is an approximation method that alleviates the periodicity requirements of Fourier series and avoids the Gibbs phenomenon when approximating functions. We describe a similar extension approach using regular wavelet bases on a hypercube to approximate functions on subsets of that cube. These subsets may have a general shape. This construction is inherently associated with redundancy which leads to severe ill-conditioning, but recent theory shows that nevertheless high accuracy and numerical stability can be achieved using regularization and oversampling. Regularized least squares solvers, such as the truncated singular value decomposition, that are suited to solve the resulting ill-conditioned and skinny linear system generally have cubic computational cost. We compare several algorithms that improve on this complexity. The improvements benefit from the sparsity in and the structure of the discrete wavelet transform. We present a method that requires mathcalO(N) operations in 1-D and mathcalO(N3(d−1)/d) in d-D, d>1. We experimentally show that direct sparse QR solvers appear to be more time-efficient, but yield larger expansion coefficients.














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