A N-Body Solver for Free Mesh Interpolation

Abstract: Factorization of the Gaussian RBF kernel is developed for free-mesh interpolation in the flat, polynomial limit corresponding to Taylor expansion and the Vandermonde basis of geometric moments. With this spectral approximation, a top-down octree-scoping of an interpolant is found by recursively decomposing the residual, similar to the work of Driscoll and Heryudono (2007), except that in the current approach the grid is decoupled from the low rank approximation, allowing partial separation of sampling errors (the mesh) from representation errors (the polynomial order). Then, it is possible to demonstrate roughly 5 orders of magnitude improvement in free-mesh interpolation errors for the three-dimensional Franke function, relative to previous benchmarks. As in related work on $N$-body methods for factorization by square root iteration (Challacombe 2015), some emphasis is placed on resolution of the identity.