Exact recovery of non-uniform splines from the projection onto spaces of algebraic polynomials

Abstract In this work we consider the problem of recovering non-uniform splines from their projection onto spaces of algebraic polynomials. We show that under a certain Chebyshev-type separation condition on its knots, a spline whose inner-products with a polynomial basis and boundary conditions are known, can be recovered using Total Variation norm minimization. The proof of the uniqueness of the solution uses the method of ‘dual’ interpolating polynomials and is based on Candes and Fernandez-Granda (2014), where the theory was developed for trigonometric polynomials. We also show results for the multivariate case.

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