Smooth planar $r$-splines of degree $2r$

Abstract

In \cite{as}, Alfeld and Schumaker give a formula for the dimension of the space of piecewise polynomial functions (splines) of degree $d$ and smoothness $r$ on a generic triangulation of a planar simplicial complex $\Delta$ (for $d\ge 3r+1$) and any triangulation (for $d\ge 3r+2$). In \cite{ss}, it was conjectured that the Alfeld-Schumaker formula actually holds for all $d\ge 2r+1$. In this note, we show that this is the best result possible; in particular, there exists a simplicial complex $\Delta$ such that for any $r$, the dimension of the spline space in degree $d=2r$ is not given by the formula of \cite{as}. The proof relies on the explicit computation of the nonvanishing of the first local cohomology module described in \cite{ss2}.

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