Lattice-supported splines on polytopal complexes

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Abstract: We study the module Cr(mathcalP) of piecewise polynomial functions of smoothness r on a pure n-dimensional polytopal complex mathcalPsubsetmathbbRn, via an analysis of certain subcomplexes mathcalPW obtained from the intersection lattice of the interior codimension one faces of mathcalP. We obtain two main results: first, we show that in sufficiently high degree, the vector space Ckr(mathcalP) of splines of degree leqk has a basis consisting of splines supported on the mathcalPW for kgg0. We call such splines lattice-supported. This shows that an analog of the notion of a star-supported basis for Ckr(Delta) studied by Alfeld-Schumaker in the simplicial case holds. Second, we provide a pair of conjectures, one involving lattice-supported splines, bounding how large k must be so that mboxdimmathbbRCkr(mathcalP) agrees with the formula given by McDonald-Schenck. A family of examples shows that the latter conjecture is tight. The proposed bounds generalize known and conjectured bounds in the simplicial case.






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