GENERALIZED BOCHNER'S THEOREM FOR RADIAL FUNCTION

A radial function can be expressed by its generator through The positive definite of the function plays an important rote in the radial basis interpolation. We can naturally use Bochner’s Theorem to check if is positive definite. This requires however a n-dhnensiotial Fourier transformation and it is not very easy to calculate. Furthermore in a lot of cases we will use for spaces of various dimensions too, then for every fixed n we need do the Fourier transformation once to check if the function is positive definite in the n-di-mensional space. The completely monotone function:, which is discussed in [4] is positive definite for arbitrary space dimensions. With this technique tve can very easily characterize the positive definite, of a radial function through its generator. Unfortunately there is only a very small subset of radial function which is completely monotone. Thus this criterion excluded a lot of interesting functions such as compactly supported radial function, whcih are very useful in applic