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%Vakarchuk83
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%Vakarchuk83b
\rhl{V}
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%VanArman68
\rhl{V}
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%VanDeVilleBluUnserPhilipsLemahieuVandeWalle04
% carl 03apr06
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% B-splines for hexagonal meshes

%VanWijk86
% carl
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%Varady82
% larry
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%Varah77
% carl
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%Varas84
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% larry
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%Varga69
\rhl{V}
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%Varga71
% carl 22may98
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%Varga76
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%VargasRodriguezFlicknerSanz92
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%Varma78
\rhl{V}
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%Varma78b
\rhl{V}
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%VarmaKatsifarakis87a
% Shayne 05feb96
\rhl{V}
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% Yet another special case of Shadrin's result
% This time for Hermite interpolation by cubics to function
% value and derivative at the endpoint of the interval
%

%VarmaYu91
\rhl{V}
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% larry
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%VarmaYu99
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%Vasilenko83a
% carl 14sep95
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%VasilievVA92
% carl 6aug96
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% see Vasiliev94a

%VasilievVA94a
% carl 14sep95
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% contains discussions of, and references to, Vassiliev's work on the smallest
% dimension I(M,k) of a linear subspace of the space of continuous functions on 
% some manifold which contains interpolants to arbitrary data at arbitrary k 
% points from that manifold. Examples: I(S^1,k) = 2floor{k/2}+1.
% k+i(k) \le I(\RR^2,k) \le 2k-1, with  i(k) := number of 1's in binary
% expansion of k-1, and with  \Pi_1 + span(()^{2,0} + ()^{0,2})  a good space
% for k=3.

%Vaughan99
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%VedeneevZhidkovShchedrin0
% larry
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%Vegter98
% carlrefs 20nov03
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% multivariate polynomials

%Veldhuizen86
% carl
\rhl{V}
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% and Math. Comput., submitted for publication, 
% ref. in \JCAM 21, 1988, 212

%Veldhuizen88
% carl
\rhl{V}
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% norm of cubic spline interpolant is bounded by 1 + 3(local mesh ratio)^2
% and, for uniform knots, is bounded below by 11/8.

%Velho92
\rhl{V}
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%Velikin70
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%Velikin72
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%Velikin87
% . 12mar97
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%VelikinKorneichuk71
% larry
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% from \MaZ; 9; 1971;  483--494;

%Verde-Star99
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% zb 23jun03
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% intro plus identities
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%VerdeStar95
% carlrefs 20nov03
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% sherm, update  page numbers
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%VermeulenBartelsHeppler92
% sherm, pagination update, refJb to refJc
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% carl
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%Vershinin81
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%Vershinin81b
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% larry
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%Versprille75
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% first(?) appearance of NURBS

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% author 23jun03
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%Vertesi89
% .
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%Vertesi90a
% .
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%Vertesi90b
% author 23jun03
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%Vertesi99
% carl 26aug99
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%Vesely77
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%Vesprille75
% farin 03apr06
\rhl{}
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% first paper on rational splines

%Vetterli86
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Filter bank allowing perfect reconstruction; 
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%Videnskii51
% shadrin 03apr06
\rhl{}
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%VigoNuriaCotria02
% larry Lai-Schumaker book
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%VigoPlaBrunet97
% larry 10sep99
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%Villalobos83
% larry
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%VillalobosWahbaXX
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%Villemoes94
% larry
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%Villemoes94b
% hogan 19nov95
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%Villemoes97
% larry 10sep99
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%Villiers93
% carl
\rhl{V}
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A convergence result in nodal spline interpolation;
\JAT; 74(3); 1993; 266--279;
% spline interpolation made local by use of additional knots

%Villiers93b
% carl
\rhl{V}
\refJ Villiers,  J. M. de;
A nodal spline interpolant for the Gregory rule of even order;
\NM; 66(1); 1993; 123--137;
% quadrature, univariate, local

%VilliersRohwer87
% larry
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%VilliersRohwer89
\rhl{V}
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%VilliersRohwer91
% author
\rhl{V}
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%VilliersRohwer94
% sonya
\rhl{V}
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%Vincenti86a
% shayne 26oct95
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% numerical computation of the zeros of the monic polynomial of fixed degree
% which has minimum L_p-norm (see also Burgoyne67)

%VinetZhedanov04
% carl 03apr06
\rhl{}
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% picks up on BoorSaff86 and Borodin02

%Viswanadham99
\rhl{V}
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Finite element method for time dependent problems with B-splines;
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%VittitowXX
\rhl{V}
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Interpolation to arbitrarily spaced data;
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%Vogelius83
% author 20jun97
\rhl{V}
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%Volk78
% larry
\rhl{V}
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%Volk80
\rhl{V}
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%Volk82
\rhl{V}
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%Volk88a
% author 20apr99
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%Volk88b
% author 20apr99
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% http://user.berlin.de/~wolfgang.volk

%Volk89
% author 20apr99
\rhl{V}
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% Siemens Systemtechnik, Berlin: 1988:
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%Volk90
% author 20apr99
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%Volk99a
\rhl{V}
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Nonparametric representation of B\'ezier curves;
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%Volkov05a
% carl 03apr06
\rhl{}
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Totally positive matrices in the methods of constructing interpolation
   splines of odd degree;
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% a bound for the condition number of the linear system that arises in the 
% construction of quintic interpolating splines

%Volkov05b
% carl 03apr06
\rhl{}
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Unconditional convergence of one more middle derivative for odd-degree spline
   interpolation;
Doklady Mathematics; 71(2); 2005; 250--252;
% transl from \DAN: 401(1): 2005: 592--594:
% settles the conjecture that, in spline interpolation of order 2n, the induced
% projector on (n-1)st derivatives is bounded independently of the knots.
% Also connects ...

%Volkov84a
% author
\rhl{}
\refJ Volkov, Yu. S.;
??? (Russian);
Vychisl.\ Sistemy; 106; 1984; 41--56;

%Volkov84b
% author
\rhl{}
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Uniform convergence of derivatives of interpolating splines of odd degree;
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%Voronovskaja70
% carl
\rhl{V}
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% basic stuff on extremal polynomials and Hausdorff Moment Problem.

%Vorst03
% author 23jun03
\rhl{}
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Cambridge University Press (Cambridge); 2003;
% ISBN 0521818281

%Voss09a
\rhl{V}
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\"Uber Kurvenpaare in R\"aumen;
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