Fractional Cone Splines and Hex Splines

TL;DR

This paper extends cone and box splines to fractional and complex orders, providing new multivariate spline families with explicit time domain representations and analyzing their properties and basis characteristics.

Contribution

It introduces fractional and complex order cone and hex splines, generalizing existing spline families and deriving explicit time domain formulas and basis properties.

Findings

Explicit time domain representations for fractional cone and hex splines.

These splines include special cases like three-directional box splines and hex splines.

A bivariate hex spline and its lattice translates form a Riesz basis.

Abstract

We introduce an extension of cone splines and box splines to fractional and complex orders. These new families of multivariate splines are defined in the Fourier domain along certain $s$-dimensional meshes and include as special cases the three-directional box splines \cite{article:condat} and hex splines \cite{article:vandeville} previously considered by Condat, Van De Ville et al. These cone and hex splines of fractional and complex order generalize the univariate fractional and complex B-splines defined in \cite{article:ub,article:fbu} and investigated in, e.g., \cite{article:fm,article:mf}. Explicit time domain representations are derived for these splines on $3$-directional meshes. We present some properties of these two multivariate spline families such as recurrence, decay and refinement. Finally it is shown that a bivariate hex spline and its integer lattice translates form a Riesz basis of its linear span.