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Hermite interpolation with radial basis functions on spheres

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We show how conditionally negative definite functions on spheres coupled with strictly completely monotone functions (or functions whose derivative is strictly completely monotone) can be used for Hermite interpolation. The classes of functions thus obtained have the advantage over the strictly positive definite functions studied in [17] that closed form representations (as opposed to series expansions) are readily available. Furthermore, our functions include the historically significant spherical multiquadrics. Numerical results are also presented.

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Fasshauer, G.E. Hermite interpolation with radial basis functions on spheres. Advances in Computational Mathematics 10, 81–96 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018914229009

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