Radial basis functions viewed from cubic splines (Q4379958)

It is just the other way around: Cubic spline functions are viewed with the techniques often applied now to radial basis functions. It is shown that \(\varphi (x)= |x |^3\) is conditionally positive definite of order 2. This mean that \(\Sigma_{i,j} \alpha_i \alpha_j |x_i-x_j |^3 \geq 0\) whenever the parameter satisfy the condition \(\Sigma_j \alpha_j p(x_j) =0\) for all polynomials of degree 2. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0874.00037].