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B-splines and optimal stability

Author(s): J. M. Peña.
Journal: Math. Comp. 66 (1997), 1555-1560.
MSC (1991): Primary 65D07, 41A15
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Abstract: It is proved that, among all nonnegative bases of its space, the B-spline basis is optimally stable for evaluating spline functions.


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Additional Information:

J. M. Peña
Affiliation: Departamento de Matem{á}tica Aplicada, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Email: jmpena@posta.unizar.es

DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-97-00897-1
PII: S 0025-5718(97)00897-1
Keywords: B-splines; optimal stability, condition number, nonnegative matrices, partial ordering
Received by editor(s): May 10, 1995
Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 29, 1996
Additional Notes: This work was partially supported by the Spanish Research Grant DGICYT PB93-0310 and by the EU project CHRX-CT94-0522.
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society


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