Integral operators generated by multi-scale kernels (Q964922)

The authors investigate some properties of multi-scale kernels, mainly those which are related to their native spaces and make the corresponding integral operators well defined in the \(L^p\) context. In the case \(p=2\), they derive results related to the range of the operators, alternative representations, computation of their norms, basic spectral analysis and isolated properties involving the native spaces of the kernels. Even being not compact, the integral operators possess interesting properties which are peculiar to compact operators. Multi-scale kernels are a relatively new approach to combine reproducing kernel Hilbert space techniques with multi-resolution methods known from wavelet theory. Up until now, multi-scale kernels have mainly been used in the context of function approximation, machine learning, and meshless methods for solving partial differential equations. There, many issues related to complexity theory arise quite naturally.