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    Multiscale approximation for functions in arbitrary Sobolev spaces by scaled radial basis functions on the unit sphere

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    AbstractIn this paper, we prove convergence results for multiscale approximation using compactly supported radial basis functions restricted to the unit sphere, for target functions outside the reproducing kernel Hilbert space of the employed kernel

    Polyharmonic approximation on the sphere

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    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 LpL_p approximation order for this kind of approximation is σ\sigma for functions having LpL_p smoothness σ\sigma (for σ\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 LpL_p, p>2 and held only in a restrictive setting when measuring error in LpL_p, p<2.Comment: 16 pages; revised version; to appear in Constr. Appro

    Continuous and discrete least-squares approximation by radial basis functions on spheres

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    AbstractIn this paper we discuss Sobolev bounds on functions that vanish at scattered points on the n-sphere Sn in Rn+1. The Sobolev spaces involved may have fractional as well as integer order. We then apply these results to obtain estimates for continuous and discrete least-squares surface fits via radial basis functions (RBFs). We also address a stabilization or regularization technique known as spline smoothing
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