2381/27598 Carl Richard Odell Carl Richard Odell Kernel Approximation on Compact Homogeneous Spaces University of Leicester 2012 IR content 2012-11-28 10:06:45 Thesis https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Kernel_Approximation_on_Compact_Homogeneous_Spaces/10120043 This thesis is concerned with approximation on compact homogeneous spaces. The first part of the research involves a particular kind of compact homogeneous space, the hypersphere, S ͩˉ¹ embedded in R ͩ. It is a calculation of three integrals associated with approximation using radial basis functions, calculating the Fourier-Gegenbauer coefficients for two such functions. The latter part of the research is a calculation of an error bound for compact homogeneous spaces when interpolating with a G-invariant kernel, a generalisation of a result already known for spheres.