Polynomial-reproducing spline spaces from fine zonotopal tilings (Q2237924)

Splines and in particular simplex splines in two dimensions are very useful tools for function approximation, because of their local support, their simple, piecewise polynomial structure and especially because (full, as compared to piecewise) polynomial spaces of some limited degree can be included in their span. In this paper, the authors give special geometric structures that allow the mentioned spline approximations with simplex splines to be polynomial reproducing -- up to a certain degree. In this case, polynomial reproduction does not only mean that the mentioned polynomials are in the linear space spanned by the simplex splines, but that simple linear operators (such as the famous and extremely useful quasi-interpolation operators) that recover those polynomials pointwise can be explicitly stated.