Wendland functions with increasing smoothness converge to a Gaussian

DOI10.1007/s10444-013-9304-5zbMath1298.41002arXiv1203.5696MaRDI QIDQ457673

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

Publication date: 29 September 2014

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

radial basis functions; Gaussian; smoothness; compact support; Wendland functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65D07: Numerical computation using splines

41A63: Multidimensional problems

41A05: Interpolation in approximation theory

41A15: Spline approximation

41A30: Approximation by other special function classes

Related Items

Lasso Hyperinterpolation Over General Regions, Kernel-based collocation methods for Heath–Jarrow–Morton models with Musiela parametrization, $C^\infty$ Compactly Supported and Positive Definite Radial Kernels, Distributed Filtered Hyperinterpolation for Noisy Data on the Sphere, On the fractional Laplacian of some positive definite kernels with applications in numerically solving the surface quasi-geostrophic equation as a prominent fractional calculus model, Spherical Framelets from Spherical Designs, Euler-Lagrange modelling of dilute particle-Laden flows with arbitrary particle-size to mesh-spacing ratio, Bypassing the quadrature exactness assumption of hyperinterpolation on the sphere, Sketching with Spherical Designs for Noisy Data Fitting on Spheres, Unifying compactly supported and Matérn covariance functions in spatial statistics, Estimation and prediction using generalized Wendland covariance functions under fixed domain asymptotics, On the quadrature exactness in hyperinterpolation, A stable and accurate scheme for solving the Stefan problem coupled with natural convection using the immersed boundary smooth extension method, Tight framelets and fast framelet filter bank transforms on manifolds, Estimation and prediction of Gaussian processes using generalized Cauchy covariance model under fixed domain asymptotics, Fully discrete needlet approximation on the sphere, New validity conditions for the multivariate Matérn coregionalization model, with an application to exploration geochemistry

Uses Software

• Matlab

Cites Work

• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Closed form representations for a class of compactly supported radial basis functions
• The missing Wendland functions
• Radial positive definite functions generated by Euclid's hat
• Compactly supported positive definite radial functions
• Piecewise polynomial, positive definite and compactly supported radial functions of minimal degree
• An algorithm for selecting a good value for the parameter \(c\) in radial basis function interpolation
• On choosing ``optimal shape parameters for RBF approximation
• On some properties of Buhmann functions
• Radial Basis Functions
• Scattered Data Approximation