Mollification formulas and implicit smoothing (Q2642363)

The authors develop some mollification formulas involving convolutions between popular radial basis function \(f\), and suitable mollifiers \(k\). Polyharmonic splines, scaled Bessel kernels and compactly supported basic functions are considered. An application which motivated the development of the formulas is a technique called implicit smoothing. The purpose of this paper is to present a mathematical treatment of general versions of these, and related, modification formulas.