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Comp."],"abstract":"<p>\n                    In this paper we study strictly positive definite functions on the unit sphere of the\n                    <inline-formula content-type=\"math\/mathml\">\n                      <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" alttext=\"m\">\n                        <mml:semantics>\n                          <mml:mi>m<\/mml:mi>\n                          <mml:annotation encoding=\"application\/x-tex\">m<\/mml:annotation>\n                        <\/mml:semantics>\n                      <\/mml:math>\n                    <\/inline-formula>\n                    -dimensional Euclidean space. Such functions can be used for solving a scattered data interpolation problem on spheres. Since positive definite functions on the sphere were already characterized by Schoenberg some fifty years ago, the issue here is to determine what kind of positive definite functions are actually strictly positive definite. The study of this problem was initiated recently by Xu and Cheney (Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.\n                    <bold>116<\/bold>\n                    (1992), 977\u2013981), where certain sufficient conditions were derived. A new approach, which is based on a critical connection between this problem and that of multivariate polynomial interpolation on spheres, is presented here. The relevant interpolation problem is subsequently analyzed by three different complementary methods. The first is based on the de Boor-Ron general \u201cleast solution for the multivariate polynomial interpolation problem\u201d. The second, which is suitable only for\n                    <inline-formula content-type=\"math\/mathml\">\n                      <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" alttext=\"m equals 2\">\n                        <mml:semantics>\n                          <mml:mrow>\n                            <mml:mi>m<\/mml:mi>\n                            <mml:mo>=<\/mml:mo>\n                            <mml:mn>2<\/mml:mn>\n                          <\/mml:mrow>\n                          <mml:annotation encoding=\"application\/x-tex\">m=2<\/mml:annotation>\n                        <\/mml:semantics>\n                      <\/mml:math>\n                    <\/inline-formula>\n                    , is based on the connection between bivariate harmonic polynomials and univariate analytic polynomials, and reduces the problem to the structure of the integer zeros of bounded univariate exponentials. Finally, the last method invokes the realization of harmonic polynomials as the polynomial kernel of the Laplacian, thereby exploiting some basic relations between homogeneous ideals and their polynomial kernels.\n                  <\/p>","DOI":"10.1090\/s0025-5718-96-00780-6","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2002,7,26]],"date-time":"2002-07-26T18:14:44Z","timestamp":1027707284000},"page":"1513-1530","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["Strictly positive definite functions on spheres in Euclidean spaces"],"prefix":"10.1090","volume":"65","author":[{"given":"Amos","family":"Ron","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Xingping","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"14","published-online":{"date-parts":[[1996]]},"reference":[{"key":"1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"411","DOI":"10.1016\/0022-247X(69)90165-6","article-title":"Integral representations for Jacobi polynomials and some applications","volume":"26","author":"Askey, Richard","year":"1969","journal-title":"J. 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