Wendland functions with increasing smoothness converge to a Gaussian

DOI10.1007/S10444-013-9304-5zbMATH Open1298.41002arXiv1203.5696OpenAlexW1992786562MaRDI QIDQ457673FDOQ457673

Authors: Ian H. Sloan, Robert S. Womersley, Andrew Chernih 

Publication date: 29 September 2014

Published in: Advances in Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Wendland functions are a class of compactly supported radial basis functions with a user-specified smoothness parameter. We prove that with a linear change of variables, both the original and the "missing" Wendland functions converge uniformly to a Gaussian as the smoothness parameter approaches infinity. We also give numerical experiments with Wendland functions of different smoothness.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.5696

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zbMATH Keywords

radial basis functionssmoothnesscompact supportGaussianWendland functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Multidimensional problems (41A63) Interpolation in approximation theory (41A05) Spline approximation (41A15) Approximation by other special function classes (41A30)

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Uses Software

• Matlab

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