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APPROXIMATING SMOOTH, MULTIVARIATE FUNCTIONS ON IRREGULAR DOMAINS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2020

BEN ADCOCK
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada; ben_adcock@sfu.ca
DAAN HUYBRECHS
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, BE-3001Leuven, Belgium; daan.huybrechs@cs.kuleuven.be

Abstract

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In this paper, we introduce a method known as polynomial frame approximation for approximating smooth, multivariate functions defined on irregular domains in $d$ dimensions, where $d$ can be arbitrary. This method is simple, and relies only on orthogonal polynomials on a bounding tensor-product domain. In particular, the domain of the function need not be known in advance. When restricted to a subdomain, an orthonormal basis is no longer a basis, but a frame. Numerical computations with frames present potential difficulties, due to the near-linear dependence of the truncated approximation system. Nevertheless, well-conditioned approximations can be obtained via regularization, for instance, truncated singular value decompositions. We comprehensively analyze such approximations in this paper, providing error estimates for functions with both classical and mixed Sobolev regularity, with the latter being particularly suitable for higher-dimensional problems. We also analyze the sample complexity of the approximation for sample points chosen randomly according to a probability measure, providing estimates in terms of the corresponding Nikolskii inequality for the domain. In particular, we show that the sample complexity for points drawn from the uniform measure is quadratic (up to a log factor) in the dimension of the polynomial space, independently of $d$, for a large class of nontrivial domains. This extends a well-known result for polynomial approximation in hypercubes.

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