Limit problems for interpolation by analytic radial basis functions (Q2468123)

Several radial basis functions with parameters, such as the multiquadric radial basis functions, become increasingly flat when the parameters tend to limits, zero or infinity, as the case may be. This asymptotic property is interesting because in applications, there may be good reasons to take large parameters, for example. On the other hand, the linear systems to solve the interpolation problems become severely ill-conditioned in these cases. Therefore the questions how to precondition these systems and what the possible limits of the interpolants could be, are of interest. Both questions are addressed and solved in general circumstances. The methods to answer these questions apply expansions of the radial kernels and are related to multivariate polynomial interpolation Newton methods and with Hermite data.