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The aim of this paper is to show how rapidly decaying RBF Lagrange functions on the spheres can be used to create effective, stable finite difference methods based on radial basis functions (RBF-FD). For certain classes of PDEs this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Wolfgang Erb , Thomas Hangelbroek , Francis J. Narcowich , Christian Rieger , Joseph D. Ward

Recent developments have made it possible to overcome grid-based limitations of finite difference (FD) methods by adopting the kernel-based meshless framework using radial basis functions (RBFs). Such an approach provides a meshless…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Pankaj K Mishra , Gregory E Fasshauer , Mrinal K Sen , Leevan Ling

We construct and study the intrinsic sub-Laplacian, defined outside the set of characteristic points, for a smooth hypersurface embedded in a contact sub-Riemannian manifold. We prove that, away from characteristic points, the intrinsic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Davide Barilari , Karen Habermann

To predict smooth physical phenomena from observations, spline interpolation provides an interpretable framework by minimizing an energy functional associated with the Laplacian operator. This work proposes a methodology to construct a…

Computation · Statistics 2026-03-26 Charlie Sire , Mike Pereira

The discrete Laplace operator is ubiquitous in spectral shape analysis, since its eigenfunctions are provably optimal in representing smooth functions defined on the surface of the shape. Indeed, subspaces defined by its eigenfunctions have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Yoni Choukroun , Gautam Pai , Ron Kimmel

Radial Basis Function (RBF), or Gaussian, kernels are among the most widely used parametric kernels in machine learning, particularly in methods such as Support Vector Machines (SVM) and kernel-based subspace approaches. The kernel…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Lakhdar Remaki

We present a new iterative technique based on radial basis function (RBF) interpolation and smoothing for the generation and smoothing of curvilinear meshes from straight-sided or other curvilinear meshes. Our technique approximates the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Vidhi Zala , Varun Shankar , Shankar P. Sastry , Robert M. Kirby

It is shown that eigenvalues of Laplace-Beltrami operators on compact Riemannian manifolds can be determined as limits of eigenvalues of certain finite-dimensional operators in spaces of polyharmonic functions with singularities. In…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Isaac Z. Pesenson

The Gaussian integral operator arises naturally as a local Euclidean approximation of the heat semigroup on a Riemannian manifold and plays a pivotal role in the analysis of graph Laplacians, particularly within the frameworks of manifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Jia-Ming , Liou , Chi-Chien Lu

In this paper we study dual bases functions in subspaces. These are bases which are dual to functionals on larger linear space. Our goal is construct and derive properties of certain bases obtained from the construction, with primary focus…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Scott N. Kersey

This paper derives rates of convergence of certain approximations of the Koopman operators that are associated with discrete, deterministic, continuous semiflows on a complete metric space $(X,d_X)$. Approximations are constructed in terms…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Sai Tej Paruchuri , Jia Guo , Michael Kepler , Tim Ryan , Haoran Wang , Andrew J. Kurdila , Daniel Stilwell

This paper presents a mixed basis approach for Laplace eigenvalue problems, which treats the boundary as a perturbation of the free Laplace operator. The method separates the boundary from the volume via a generic function that can be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-09-07 Matias Nordin , Martin Nilsson-Jacobi , Magnus Nydén

We propose a natural intrinsic extension of ridge regression from Euclidean spaces to general Riemannian manifolds for time-series prediction. Our approach combines Riemannian least-squares fitting via B\'ezier curves, empirical covariance…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Esfandiar Nava-Yazdani

We study the spectral convergence of a symmetrized Graph Laplacian matrix induced by a Gaussian kernel evaluated on pairs of embedded data, sampled from a manifold with boundary, a sub-manifold of $\mathbb{R}^m$. Specifically, we deduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 J. Wilson Peoples , John Harlim

We propose two localized Radial Basis Function (RBF) methods, the Radial Basis Function Partition of Unity method (RBF-PUM) and the Radial Basis Function generated Finite Differences method (RBF-FD), for solving financial derivative pricing…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-08-20 Slobodan Milovanović , Victor Shcherbakov

We present a generalization of the RBF-FD method that computes RBF-FD weights in finite-sized neighborhoods around the centers of RBF-FD stencils by introducing an overlap parameter $\delta \in [0,1]$ such that $\delta=1$ recovers the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Varun Shankar

The meshless/meshfree radial basis function (RBF) method is a powerful technique for interpolating scattered data. But, solving large RBF interpolation problems without fast summation methods is computationally expensive. For RBF…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-27 Wei Zhao , Martin Stoll

This paper proposes a novel structure-aware matrix completion framework assisted by radial basis function (RBF) interpolation for near-field radio map construction in extremely large multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems. Unlike…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Hao Sun , Xianghao Yu , Junting Chen

Scattered data fitting is a frequently encountered problem for reconstructing an unknown function from given scattered data. Radial basis function (RBF) methods have proven to be highly useful to deal with this problem. We describe two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Lingxia Cui , Hua Xiang

The eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator have widespread applications in a number of disciplines of engineering, computer vision/graphics, machine learning, etc. These eigenfunctions or manifold harmonics, provide the means to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 A. M. A. Alsnayyan , B. Shanker