Polyharmonic approximation on the sphere

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Abstract: The purpose of this article is to provide new error estimates for a popular type of SBF approximation on the sphere: approximating by linear combinations of Green's functions of polyharmonic differential operators. We show that the Lp approximation order for this kind of approximation is sigma for functions having Lp smoothness sigma (for sigma up to the order of the underlying differential operator, just as in univariate spline theory). This is an improvement over previous error estimates, which penalized the approximation order when measuring error in Lp, p>2 and held only in a restrictive setting when measuring error in Lp, p<2.


The author develops an approximation scheme [cf. \textit{S. Hubbert} and \textit{T. M. Morton}, J. Approximation Theory 129, No. 1, 58--77 (2004; Zbl 1065.41004)] delivering novel error estimates for a robust family of spherical basis functions: the polyharmonic kernels (which are fundamental solutions for certain elementary partial differential operators). This is the family of Green's functions of iterated and perturbed Laplace-Beltrami operators. The development of the scheme presented here is based on replacing the kernel in an integral identity by a linear combination of scattered rotations of the kernel [cf. \textit{R. DeVore} and \textit{A. Ron}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 362, No. 12, 6205--6229 (2010; Zbl 1215.41004)].











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