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CAA: the Padua Points


The Padua points are the first known example of optimal points for total degree polynomial interpolation in two variables, with a Lebesgue constant increasing like log square of the degree. They have been discovered and studied by our group during some collaboration periods at the University of Padua with Len Bos (Calgary), Shayne Waldron (Auckland) and Yuan Xu (Eugene).

Lagrange interpolation at the Padua points has been recently used in some scientific and technological applications, for example in Computational Chemistry (the Fun2D tool of the CP2K simulation package for molecular dynamics, see paper), and in Image Processing (algorithms for image retrieval by colour indexing).


Publications, preprints, abstracts and codes concerning or related to the Padua points