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Interpolation of data by smooth non-negative functions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2016-03-09 v1 Numerical Analysis Optimization and Control

Abstract

We prove a finiteness principle for interpolation of data by nonnegative Cm functions. Our result raises the hope that one can start to understand constrained interpolation problems in which e.g. the interpolating function F is required to be nonnegative.

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@article{arxiv.1603.02330,
  title  = {Interpolation of data by smooth non-negative functions},
  author = {Charles Fefferman and Arie Israel and Garving K. Luli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02330},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

This is the second part of the paper titled "Finiteness Principles for Smooth Selection" posted earlier arXiv:1511.04804 . The original paper has been split into two parts for purposes of publication

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