Deriving the Continuity of Maximum-Entropy Basis Functions via Variational Analysis

DOI10.1137/06066480XzbMath1157.65042MaRDI QIDQ3519411

N. Sukumar, Roger J.-B. Wets

Publication date: 14 August 2008

Published in: SIAM Journal on Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

relative entropymaximum entropybasis functionsmeshfree methodsconvex approximationepiconvergenceinformation-theoretic variational principles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex programming (90C25) Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Set-valued and variational analysis (49J53) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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