Functional penalised basis pursuit on spheres (Q2036409)

In this paper, the author proposes a spherical approximation framework for functional inverse problems on the hypersphere. The framework is compatible with various measurement types as well as non-differentiable convex cost functionals. The solution sets are characterised in terms of spherical splines, which are used to derive an approximate canonical spline-based discretisation scheme with vanishing approximation error. The framework is illustrated on examples arising in environmental sciences.