MULTIVARIATE AFFINE FRACTAL INTERPOLATION

Fractal interpolation functions capture the irregularity of some data very effectively in comparison with the classical interpolants. They yield a new technique for fitting experimental data sampled from real world signals, which are usually difficult to represent using the classical approaches. The affine fractal interpolants constitute a generalization of the broken line interpolation, which appears as a particular case of the linear self-affine functions for specific values of the scale parameters. We study the Lp convergence of this type of interpolants for 1 <= p < <infinity> extending in this way the results available in the literature. In the second part, the affine approximants are defined in higher dimensions via product of interpolation spaces, considering rectangular grids in the product intervals. The associate operator of projection is considered. Some properties of the new functions are established and the aforementioned operator on the space of continuous functions defined on a multidimensional compact rectangle is studied.