More general fractal functions on the sphere (Q2334582)

The authors investigate fractal functions generated by certain iterated function systems on the unit sphere \(\mathbb{S}^2\) in \(\mathbb{R}^3\). A finite-dimensional space, which generalizes the classical harmonic functions on \(\mathbb{S}^2\), consisting of fractal functions with domain \(\mathbb{S}^2\) is introduced and its approximation properties on \(\mathbb{S}^2\) are discussed. Moreover, functions \(f\in L^2(\mathbb{S}^2)\) are expanded in terms of fractal functions on \(\mathbb{S}^2\) and a fractal Hilbert basis for \(L^2(\mathbb{S}^2)\) is derived.