Dimension of polynomial splines of mixed smoothness on T-meshes

Journal Article (2020)
Author(s)

Deepesh Toshniwal (TU Delft - Numerical Analysis)

Nelly Villamizar (Swansea University)

Research Group
Numerical Analysis
Copyright
© 2020 D. Toshniwal, Nelly Villamizar
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cagd.2020.101880
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Publication Year
2020
Language
English
Copyright
© 2020 D. Toshniwal, Nelly Villamizar
Research Group
Numerical Analysis
Volume number
80
Pages (from-to)
1-10
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Abstract

In this paper we study the dimension of splines of mixed smoothness on axis-aligned T-meshes. This is the setting when different orders of smoothness are required across the edges of the mesh. Given a spline space whose dimension is independent of its T-mesh's geometric embedding, we present constructive and sufficient conditions that ensure that the smoothness across a subset of the mesh edges can be reduced while maintaining stability of the dimension. The conditions have a simple geometric interpretation. Examples are presented to show the applicability of the results on both hierarchical and non-hierarchical T-meshes. For hierarchical T-meshes it is shown that mixed smoothness spline spaces that contain the space of PHT-splines (Deng et al., 2008) always have stable dimension.