Approximation power of RBFs and their associated SBFs: A connection

Advances in Computational Mathematics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-124

  Narcowich, Francis J ^a   Sun, Xinping ^b   Ward, Joseph D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fourier legendre coefficients; Interpolation; Native space; Radial basis functions; Spherical basis functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249892805     PISSN: 10197168     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10444-005-7506-1     Document Type: Article

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