Near-best univariate spline discrete quasi-interpolants on nonuniform partitions (Q1039882)

In more than one dimension, interpolation using piecewise polynomials can be difficult to handle because interpolation linear systems have to be solved. An alternative is the so-called quasi-interpolation from spline or indeed many other function spaces. There, prescribed basis functions from the spline space in two dimensions, say, are linearly combined with coefficients that come from a linear operator which is to be applied to the approximand. Only discrete operators are used in this article. The quasi-interpolants stem from polynomial spline spaces defined by non-uniform spline partitions in two dimensions, and they are constructed to minimize the norm of the quasi-interpolation operator while certain approximation orders are guaranteed. Families of such quasi-interpolants are constructed which reproduce certain polynomial orders and thereby lead to the desired approximation orders while giving near-best (i.e., minimal) operator norms.