Splines and Operators: Part I - Admissibility and Native Spaces
The variational theory of splines requires a native space: a Hilbert space over which the regularization energy $\|\mathrm{L} f\|_{L_2}^2$ is well defined and the minimum-energy interpolation problem admits a spline solution. In this paper, we characterize the operators $\mathrm{L}$ that enable the construction of such...