B-splines of Blaschke product type

Abstract

In this paper, we construct a class of new splines related to a Blaschke product. They emerge naturally when studying the filter functions of a class of linear time-invariant systems which are related to the boundary values of a Blaschke product for the purpose of sampling non-bandlimited signals using nonlinear Fourier atoms. The new splines generalize the well-known symmetric B-splines. We establish their properties such as integral representation property, a partition of unity property, a recurrence relation and difference property. We also investigate their random behaviour. Finally, our numerical experiments confirm our theories.