scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1284027
In this conference paper the author has reviewed and presented several important aspects of the recent developments in the use of positive definite functions (PDFs). Positive and conditionally PDFs, particularly the radial basis functions (RBFs) and the like, are of great interest mainly due to their ability to synthesize a good surface fit from a set of scattered data. Further, these are currently employed for analysing scattered data themselves. The techniques applied involve construction of multiresolution analysis or multilevel approximation. A distributional formulation of PDFs and kernels is given with examples under various headings in terms of theorems, corollaries and propositions. Starting with generalized Hermite interpolation through a variational formulation, uncertainty principles, stability analysis and rates of approximation, the question of fitting surfaces to scattered data is discussed. In context of modern wavelets and multilevel schemes, a scattered data analysis is dealt with. In the section of applications, the author has considered phased array antennas, incompressible fluids and magnetic fields, partial differential equations and tomography. Valuable new directions of research and applications of the ideas covered with nonlinear and optimization problems are hinted at, as well. The extensive list of references of 83 items is quite useful for further work. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0910.00047].
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