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Stable simplex spline bases for $C^3$ quintics on the Powell-Sabin 12-split

Numerical Analysis 2015-05-08 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

For the space of C3C^3 quintics on the Powell-Sabin 12-split of a triangle, we determine explicitly the six symmetric simplex spline bases that reduce to a B-spline basis on each edge, have a positive partition of unity, a Marsden identity that splits into real linear factors, and an intuitive domain mesh. The bases are stable in the LL_\infty norm with a condition number independent of the geometry, have a well-conditioned Lagrange interpolant at the domain points, and a quasi-interpolant with local approximation order 6. We show an h2h^2 bound for the distance between the control points and the values of a spline at the corresponding domain points. For one of these bases we derive C0C^0, C1C^1, C2C^2 and C3C^3 conditions on the control points of two splines on adjacent macrotriangles.

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@article{arxiv.1504.02628,
  title  = {Stable simplex spline bases for $C^3$ quintics on the Powell-Sabin 12-split},
  author = {Tom Lyche and Georg Muntingh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.02628},
  year   = {2015}
}

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26 pages

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