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Discrete Splines and Its Applications

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In this paper, we survey the contributions made to discrete splines in the literature and present some applications of discrete splines in the numerical treatment of boundary value problems.

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Wong, P.J.Y. (2020). Discrete Splines and Its Applications. In: Baigent, S., Bohner, M., Elaydi, S. (eds) Progress on Difference Equations and Discrete Dynamical Systems. ICDEA 2019. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 341. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60107-2_5

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