This contribution gives results on the action of the Laplace-Beltrami derivative on suffi- ciently smooth kernels on the sphere, those defined by absolutely and uniformly expansions generated by a family of at least c...This contribution gives results on the action of the Laplace-Beltrami derivative on suffi- ciently smooth kernels on the sphere, those defined by absolutely and uniformly expansions generated by a family of at least continuous functions. Among other things, the results show that convenient Laplace-Beltrami derivatives of positive definite kernels on the sphere are positive definite too. We also include similar results on the action of the Laplace-Beltrami derivative on condensed spherical harmonic expansions.展开更多
Let m and n be fixed, positive integers and P a space composed of real polynomials in m variables. The authors study functions f ： R →R which map Gram matrices, based upon n points of R^m, into matrices, which are n...Let m and n be fixed, positive integers and P a space composed of real polynomials in m variables. The authors study functions f ： R →R which map Gram matrices, based upon n points of R^m, into matrices, which are nonnegative definite with respect to P Among other things, the authors discuss continuity, differentiability, convexity, and convexity in the sense of Jensen, of such functions展开更多
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文摘This contribution gives results on the action of the Laplace-Beltrami derivative on suffi- ciently smooth kernels on the sphere, those defined by absolutely and uniformly expansions generated by a family of at least continuous functions. Among other things, the results show that convenient Laplace-Beltrami derivatives of positive definite kernels on the sphere are positive definite too. We also include similar results on the action of the Laplace-Beltrami derivative on condensed spherical harmonic expansions.
文摘Let m and n be fixed, positive integers and P a space composed of real polynomials in m variables. The authors study functions f ： R →R which map Gram matrices, based upon n points of R^m, into matrices, which are nonnegative definite with respect to P Among other things, the authors discuss continuity, differentiability, convexity, and convexity in the sense of Jensen, of such functions
