Affiliation:
1. Scientific Computing, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University , Box 337, SE-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden
2. Institut für Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Göttingen , Lotzestraße 16–18, D–37083 Göttingen, Germany
Abstract
Abstract
This paper studies the influence of scaling on the behavior of radial basis function interpolation. It focuses on certain central aspects, but does not try to be exhaustive. The most important questions are: How does the error of a kernel-based interpolant vary with the scale of the kernel chosen? How does the standard error bound vary? And since fixed functions may be in spaces that allow scalings, like global Sobolev spaces, is there a scale of the space that matches the function best? The last question is answered in the affirmative for Sobolev spaces, but the required scale may be hard to estimate. Scalability of functions turns out to be restricted for spaces generated by analytic kernels, unless the functions are band-limited. In contrast to other papers, polynomials and polyharmonics are included as flat limits when checking scales experimentally, with an independent computation. The numerical results show that the hunt for near-flat scales is questionable, if users include the flat limit cases right from the start. When there are not enough data to evaluate errors directly, the scale of the standard error bound can be varied, up to replacing the norm of the unknown function by the norm of the interpolant. This follows the behavior of the actual error qualitatively well, but is only of limited value for estimating error-optimal scales. For kernels and functions with unlimited smoothness, the given interpolation data are proven to be insufficient for determining useful scales.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Computational Mathematics,General Mathematics
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