Radial basis interpolation on homogeneous manifolds: convergence rates (Q2642364)

The authors present pointwise error estimates for approximation on compact homogeneous manifolds using radial kernels. Tangent space techniques are used to lift the problem from the manifold to Euclidean space, where methods for proving such error estimates are well established. The novelty of this approach is that they transplant the scaling and in fact the entire error estimation onto the tangent space, and use well known properties of the scaling of Lagrange polynomials in Euclidean space.