Eigenvalues of integral operators defined by smooth positive definite kernels (Q836053)

This paper is concerned with the analysis of decay rates for eigenvalues of integral operators constructed from positive definite kernels on subsets of metric spaces. Such operators appear quite naturally in approximation theory, integral equations and operator theory, playing an important role in many problems. The authors consider integral operators defined by positive definite kernels \(K : X \times X \rightarrow {\mathbb{C}}\), where \(X\) is a metric space endowed with a strictly-positive measure. They update upon connections between two concepts of positive definiteness and upgrade on results related to Mercer like kernels. Under smoothness assumptions on \(K\), they present decay rates for the eigenvalues of the integral operator, employing adapted to their purposes multidimensional versions of known techniques used to analyze similar problems in the case where \(X\) is an interval. The results cover the case when \(X\) is a subset of \({\mathbb{R}}^{m}\) endowed with the induced Lebesgue measure and the case when \(X\) is a subset of the sphere \(S ^{m }\) endowed with the induced surface Lebesgue measure.