Piecewise polynomials on polyhedral complexes (Q2377965)

The dimension \(f\) of function spaces of piecewise polynomials of various smoothness is difficult to identify in general multivariate cases, even if the dimension \(d\) of the underlying Euclidean space is just two. For this case, a dimension formula is expressed as a polynomial with respect to the smoothness \(r\), the polyhedral complex based on the \(d\)-dimensional underlying space, and the degree \(k\) which should be sufficiently large. In this paper, the first three coefficients of that polynomial are found for the two-dimensional case.