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This paper initiates a systematic study for key properties of Artinian Gorenstein \(K\)-algebras having binomial Macaulay dual generators. In codimension 3, we demonstrate that all such algebras satisfy the strong Lefschetz property, can be constructed as a doubling of an appropriate 0-dimensional scheme in \(\mathbb{P}^2\), and we provide an explicit characterization of when they form a complete intersection. For arbitrary codimension, we establish sufficient conditions under which the weak Lefschetz property holds and show that these conditions are optimal., Comment: Comments are welcome

We construct new families of Artinian Gorenstein graded $K$-algebras of arbitrary codimension having binomial Macaulay dual generators and satisfying the weak or the strong Lefschetz property. This is a companion paper to \cite{ADFMMSV}, which studies codimension three algebras having binomial Macaulay dual generators in great depth, establishing in particular that they enjoy the strong Lefschetz property., Comment: Comments are welcome

Geometrically continuous splines are piecewise polynomial functions defined on a collection of patches which are stitched together through transition maps. They are called $G^{r}$-splines if, after composition with the transition maps, they are continuously differentiable functions to order $r$ on each pair of patches with stitched boundaries. This type of splines has been used to represent smooth shapes with complex topology for which (parametric) spline functions on fixed partitions are not sufficient. In this article, we develop new algebraic tools to analyze $G^r$-spline spaces. We define $G^{r}$-domains and transition maps using an algebraic approach, and establish an algebraic criterion to determine whether a piecewise function is $G^r$-continuous on the given domain. In the proposed framework, we construct a chain complex whose top homology is isomorphic to the $G^{r}$-spline space. This complex generalizes Billera-Schenck-Stillman homological complex used to study parametric splines. Additionally, we show how previous constructions of $G^r$-splines fit into this new algebraic framework, and present an algorithm to construct a bases for $G^r$-spline spaces. We illustrate how our algebraic approach works with concrete examples, and prove a dimension formula for the $G^r$-spline space in terms of invariants to the chain complex. In some special cases, explicit dimension formulas in terms of the degree of splines are also given., Comment: 46 pages, 5 figures, 1 table

Multivariate piecewise polynomial functions (or splines) on polyhedral complexes have been extensively studied over the past decades and find applications in diverse areas of applied mathematics including numerical analysis, approximation theory, and computer aided geometric design. In this paper we address various challenges arising in the study of splines with enhanced mixed (super-)smoothness conditions at the vertices and across interior faces of the partition. Such supersmoothness can be imposed but can also appear unexpectedly on certain splines depending on the geometry of the underlying polyhedral partition. Using algebraic tools, a generalization of the Billera-Schenck-Stillman complex that includes the effect of additional smoothness constraints leads to a construction which requires the analysis of ideals generated by products of powers of linear forms in several variables. Specializing to the case of planar triangulations, a combinatorial lower bound on the dimension of splines with supersmoothness at the vertices is presented, and we also show that this lower bound gives the exact dimension in high degree. The methods are further illustrated with several examples., Comment: 24 pages, 2 Figures, 2 Tables

We present a completeness characterization of box splines on three-directional triangulations, also called Type-I box spline spaces, based on edge-contact smoothness properties. For any given Type-I box spline, of specific maximum degree and order of global smoothness, our results allow to identify the local linear subspace of polynomials spanned by the box spline translates. We use the global super-smoothness properties of box splines as well as the additional super-smoothness conditions at edges to characterize the spline space spanned by the box spline translates. Subsequently, we prove the completeness of this space space with respect to the local polynomial space induced by the box spline translates. The completeness property allows the construction of hierarchical spaces spanned by the translates of box splines for any polynomial degree on multilevel Type-I grids. We provide a basis for these hierarchical box spline spaces under explicit geometric conditions of the domain., Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures

We derive a formula which is a lower bound on the dimension of trivariate splines on a tetrahedral partition which are continuously differentiable of order $r$ in large enough degree. While this formula may fail to be a lower bound on the dimension of the spline space in low degree, we illustrate in several examples considered by Alfeld and Schumaker that our formula may give the exact dimension of the spline space in large enough degree if vertex positions are generic. In contrast, for splines continuously differentiable of order $r>1$, every lower bound in the literature diverges (often significantly) in large degree from the dimension of the spline space in these examples. We derive the bound using commutative and homological algebra., Comment: 22 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables

A tetrahedral complex all of whose tetrahedra meet at a common vertex is called a \textit{vertex star}. Vertex stars are a natural generalization of planar triangulations, and understanding splines on vertex stars is a crucial step to analyzing trivariate splines. It is particularly difficult to compute the dimension of splines on vertex stars in which the vertex is completely surrounded by tetrahedra -- we call these \textit{closed} vertex stars. A formula due to Alfeld, Neamtu, and Schumaker gives the dimension of $C^r$ splines on closed vertex stars of degree at least $3r+2$. We show that this formula is a lower bound on the dimension of $C^r$ splines of degree at least $(3r+2)/2$. Our proof uses apolarity and the so-called \textit{Waldschmidt constant} of the set of points dual to the interior faces of the vertex star. We also use an argument of Whiteley to show that the only splines of degree at most $(3r+1)/2$ on a generic closed vertex star are global polynomials., Comment: 26 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables

We analyze the space of differentiable functions on a quad-mesh $\cM$, which are composed of 4-split spline macro-patch elements on each quadrangular face. We describe explicit transition maps across shared edges, that satisfy conditions which ensure that the space of differentiable functions is ample on a quad-mesh of arbitrary topology. These transition maps define a finite dimensional vector space of $G^{1}$ spline functions of bi-degree $\le (k,k)$ on each quadrangular face of $\cM$. We determine the dimension of this space of $G^{1}$ spline functions for $k$ big enough and provide explicit constructions of basis functions attached respectively to vertices, edges and faces. This construction requires the analysis of the module of syzygies of univariate b-spline functions with b-spline function coefficients. New results on their generators and dimensions are provided. Examples of bases of $G^{1}$ splines of small degree for simple topological surfaces are detailed and illustrated by parametric surface constructions., Comment: Computer Aided Geometric Design, Elsevier, 2017