Title
Needlet approximation for isotropic random fields on the sphere.
Abstract
In this paper we establish a multiscale approximation for random fields on the sphere using spherical needlets—a class of spherical wavelets. We prove that the semidiscrete needlet decomposition converges in mean and pointwise senses for weakly isotropic random fields on Sd, d≥2. For numerical implementation, we construct a fully discrete needlet approximation of a smooth 2-weakly isotropic random field on Sd and prove that the approximation error for fully discrete needlets has the same convergence order as that for semidiscrete needlets. Numerical examples are carried out for fully discrete needlet approximations of Gaussian random fields and compared to a discrete version of the truncated Fourier expansion.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.jat.2017.01.001
Journal of Approximation Theory
Keywords
Field
DocType
60G60,42C40,41A25,65D32,60G15,33G55
Convergence (routing),Isotropy,Mathematical optimization,Random field,Mathematical analysis,Gaussian,Fourier series,Approximation error,Mathematics,Pointwise,Wavelet
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
216
0021-9045
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Q. T. Le Gia19312.64
Ian H. Sloan21180183.02
Yuguang Wang31198.13
Robert S. Womersley400.34