IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis Advance Access originally published online on July 31, 2008
IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis 2009 29(3):760-772; doi:10.1093/imanum/drn040
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Smoothness of interpolatory multivariate subdivision in Lie groups

Institute of Geometry, Graz University of Technology, Kopernikusgasse 24/IV, A 8010 Graz, Austria
Email: pgrohs{at}tugraz.at, grohs{at}geometrie.tuwien.ac.at
Received on 23 April 2007. Revised on 14 January 2008.
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Nonlinear subdivision schemes that operate on manifolds are of use whenever manifold-valued data have to be processed in a multiscale fashion. This paper considers the case where the manifold is a Lie group and the nonlinear subdivision schemes are derived from linear interpolatory ones by the so-called log–exp analogy. The main result of the paper is that a multivariate interpolatory Lie-group-valued subdivision scheme derived from a linear scheme is at least as smooth as the linear scheme, where smoothness is understood in terms of Hölder exponents.
Key Words: subdivision; nonlinear subdivision; multivariate subdivision; Lie group; Lie group subdivision; Hölder exponents; smoothness equivalence