The paper deals with effective calculation of Thin-Plate Splines (TPS). We present a new modification of hierarchical approximation scheme. Unlike 2-D schemes published earlier, we propose an 1-D approximation. The new method yields lower computing complexity while it preserves the approximation accuracy.
This work is devoted to the numerical simulation of the Vlasov equation using a phase space grid. In contrast to Particle-In-Cell (PIC) methods, which are known to be noisy, we propose a semi-Lagrangian-type method to discretize the Vlasov equation in the two-dimensional phase space. As this kind of method requires a huge computational effort, one has to carry out the simulations on parallel machines. For this purpose, we present a method using patches decomposing the phase domain, each patch being...
The paper deals with the biquadratic splines and their use for the interpolation in two variables on the rectangular mesh. The possibilities are shown how to interpolate function values, values of the partial derivative or values of the mixed derivative. Further, the so-called smoothing biquadratic splines are defined and the algorithms for their computation are described. All of these biquadratic splines are derived by means of the tensor product of the linear spaces of the quadratic splines and...
The Markov-Krein transform maps a positive measure on the real line to a probability measure. It is implicitly defined through an identity linking two holomorphic functions. In this paper an explicit formula is given. Its proof is obtained by considering boundary values of holomorhic functions. This transform appears in several classical questions in analysis and probability theory: Markov moment problem, Dirichlet distributions and processes, orbital measures. An asymptotic property for this transform...