Error estimates for scattered data interpolation on spheres

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 68, Issue 226, 1999, Pages 733-747

  Jetter, Kurt ^a   Stöckler, Joachim ^a   Ward, Joseph D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Best approximation; Markov inequality; Norming set; Scattered data interpolation; Spherical harmonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040118904     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0025-5718-99-01080-7     Document Type: Article

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