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Error analysis for local coarsening in univariate spline spaces

Numerical Analysis 2023-09-07 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

In this article we analyze the error produced by the removal of an arbitrary knot from a spline function. When a knot has multiplicity greater than one, this implies a reduction of its multiplicity by one unit. In particular, we deduce a very simple formula to compute the error in terms of some neighboring knots and a few control points of the considered spline. Furthermore, we show precisely how this error is related to the jump of a derivative of the spline at the knot. We then use the developed theory to propose efficient and very low-cost local error indicators and adaptive coarsening algorithms. Finally, we present some numerical experiments to illustrate their performance and show some applications.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2309.03176,
  title  = {Error analysis for local coarsening in univariate spline spaces},
  author = {Silvano Figueroa and Eduardo M. Garau and Pedro Morin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.03176},
  year   = {2023}
}
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