Total Positivity of UE Spline Basis

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2011-02-12
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AnewgeometricmethodtoprovethetotalpositivityofUEsplinebasiswasproposed.UEsplinebasisisakindofbasisdefinedoveralgebraic-trigonometricunifiedspace.UEsplinebasissharesmostpropertiesoftheusualpolynomialB-Splines.Totalpositivityisanimportantpropertyforsplinebasis,itishighlyrelatedwithshapepreservingandvariationdiminishingproperties.Knotinsertedalgorithmisthemostusefulalgorithmforsplinecurvessincemanyotherusefulpropertiesarebasedonit.ItisnecessarytoprovethetotalpositivityofUEsplinebasisusingknotinsertedalgorithmintuitively,notonlyenrichtheUEsplinebasistheory,butalsocanbetreatedassupplementtothetotalpositivityinalgebraicsense.Thisapproachalsocanbeextendedtootheranalogicalbases.