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We survey the main results of approximation theory for adaptive piecewise polynomial functions. In such methods, the partition on which the piecewise polynomial approximation is defined is not fixed in advance, but adapted to the given…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Albert Cohen , Jean-Marie Mirebeau

In this survey, we use (more or less) elementary means to establish the well-known result that for any given smooth multivariate function, the respective multivariate Bernstein polynomials converge to that function in all derivatives on…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-09-08 Adrian Fellhauer

We show that any Lipschitz projection-valued function p on a connected closed Riemannian manifold can be approximated uniformly by smooth projection-valued functions q with Lipschitz constant close to that of p. This answers a question of…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Hanfeng Li

A deep approximation is an approximating function defined by composing more than one layer of simple functions. We study deep approximations of functions of one variable using layers consisting of low-degree polynomials or simple conformal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Kingsley Yeon

It is shown that a piecewise linear function can be represented as a Max-Min polynomial of its linear components.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergei Ovchinnikov

We show that on almost complex surfaces plurisubharmonic functions can be locally approximated by smooth plurisubharmonic functions. The main tool is the Poletsky type theorem due to U. Kuzman.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Szymon Pliś

We use discrete holomorphic polynomials to prove that, given a refining sequence of critical maps of a Riemann surface, any holomorphic function can be approximated by a converging sequence of discrete holomorphic functions.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Mercat

Several new inequalities for moduli of smoothness and errors of the best approximation of a function and its derivatives in the spaces $L_p$, $0<p<1$, are obtained. For example, it is shown that for any $0<p<1$ and $k,\,r\in \mathbb{N}$ one…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-12-26 Yurii Kolomoitsev

Let $X$ be a compact K\"ahler manifold and $\theta$ a smooth closed $(1,1)$-real form representing a big cohomology class $\alpha \in H^{1,1}(X,\R)$. The purpose of this note is to show, using pluripotential and viscosity techniques, that…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2013-11-13 Philippe Eyssidieux , Vincent Guedj , Ahmed Zeriahi

We extend the idea of approximating piecewise smooth univariate functions using rational approximation introduced in \cite{aka_bas-19a} to two-dimensional space. This article aims to implement the novel piecewise Maehly based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Akansha Singh

Continuous spline functions are defined as piecewise polynomials on the faces of a polyhedral complex that agree on the intersections of two faces. Splines are used in approximation theory and numerical analysis, with applications in data…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Shaheen Nazir , Anne Schilling , Julianna Tymoczko

With the ultimate goal of iteratively solving piecewise smooth (PS) systems, we consider the solution of piecewise linear (PL) equations. PL models can be derived in the fashion of automatic or algorithmic differentiation as local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Andreas Griewank , Jens Uwe Bernt , Manuel Radons , Tom Streubel

The piecewise-concave function may be used to approximate a wide range of other functions to arbitrary precision over a bounded set. In this short paper, this property is proven for three function classes: (a) the multivariate twice…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-18 Gene A. Bunin

This note corrects a gap and improves results in an earlier paper by the first named author. More precisely, it is shown that on weakly compactly generated Banach spaces X which admit a C^{p} smooth norm, one can uniformly approximate…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-24 R. Fry , L. Keener

The preservation of ambient isotopic equivalence under piecewise linear (PL) approximation for smooth knots are prominent in molecular modeling and simulation. Sufficient conditions are given regarding: (1) Hausdorff distance, and (2) a sum…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-01-16 J. Li , T. J. Peters , K. E. Jordan

We compute the closest convex piecewise linear-quadratic (PLQ) function with minimal number of pieces to a given univariate piecewise linear-quadratic function. The Euclidean norm is used to measure the distance between functions. First, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Namrata Kundu , Yves Lucet

We construct a smooth real-valued function P(n) in [0,1], defined via a triple integral with a periodic kernel, that approximates the characteristic function of prime numbers. The function is built to suppress when n is divisible by some m…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Stanislav Semenov

Given values of a piecewise smooth function $f$ on a square grid within a domain $\Omega$, we look for a piecewise adaptive approximation to $f$. Standard approximation techniques achieve reduced approximation orders near the boundary of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-04 Sergio Amat , David Levin , Juan Ruiz-Álvarez

In this paper, we introduce a method known as polynomial frame approximation for approximating smooth, multivariate functions defined on irregular domains in $d$ dimensions, where $d$ can be arbitrary. This method is simple, and relies only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Ben Adcock , Daan Huybrechs

In this paper we investigate the approximation of continuous functions on the Wasserstein space by smooth functions, with smoothness meant in the sense of Lions differentiability. In particular, in the case of a Lipschitz function we are…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Andrea Cosso , Mattia Martini