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In mathematics, a piecewise-defined function (also called a piecewise function, a hybrid function, or definition by cases) is a function whose domain is partitioned into several intervals ("subdomains") on which the function may be defined differently.[1][2][3] Piecewise definition is actually a way of specifying the function, rather than a characteristic of the resulting function itself.
A function property holds piecewise for a function, if the function can be piecewise defined in a way that the property holds for every subdomain. Examples of functions with such piecewise properties are piecewise constant functions, piecewise linear functions (see the figure), piecewise continuous functions, and piecewise differentiable functions.
In mathematics, a piecewise-defined function (also called a piecewise function, a hybrid function, or definition by cases) is a function whose domain...
indicator functions of intervals. Informally speaking, a step function is a piecewise constant function having only finitely many pieces. A function f : R →...
piecewise linear or segmented function is a real-valued function of a real variable, whose graph is composed of straight-line segments. A piecewise linear...
On the other hand, some authors replace "piecewise linear" with "piecewise quadratic" or even "piecewise polynomial". The author might then say "higher...
Piecewise linear may refer to: Piecewise linear curve, a connected sequence of line segments Piecewise linear function, a function whose domain can be...
In mathematics, a piecewise linear manifold (PL manifold) is a topological manifold together with a piecewise linear structure on it. Such a structure...
rising from 0 to 1, but using simpler functions, especially piecewise linear functions or piecewise constant functions. These are preferred where speed of...
In mathematics, piecewise syndeticity is a notion of largeness of subsets of the natural numbers. A set S ⊂ N {\displaystyle S\subset \mathbb {N} } is...
function is called a spline. For instance, the natural cubic spline is piecewise cubic and twice continuously differentiable. Furthermore, its second derivative...
Segmented regression, also known as piecewise regression or broken-stick regression, is a method in regression analysis in which the independent variable...
a set of data points (x0, y0), (x1, y1), ..., (xn, yn) is defined as piecewise linear, resulting from the concatenation of linear segment interpolants...
geometric topology, PDIFF, for piecewise differentiable, is the category of piecewise-smooth manifolds and piecewise-smooth maps between them. It properly...
that can be partitioned into exactly two monotone chains. The graphs of piecewise linear functions form monotone chains with respect to a horizontal line...
mean signal is piecewise constant. For this reason, step detection can be profitably viewed as the problem of recovering a piecewise constant signal...
with specialized computer programs or estimation techniques such as the piecewise-linear model. Circuit simulation software, such as HSPICE (an analog circuit...
Simplicial continuation, or piecewise linear continuation (Allgower and Georg), is a one-parameter continuation method which is well suited to small to...
mappings can be (by a slight deformation) approximated by ones that are piecewise of the simplest kind. It applies to mappings between spaces that are built...
Coefficient ring: The definition is similar to cobordism, except that one uses piecewise linear or topological instead of smooth manifolds, either oriented or...
+\lambda \nabla ^{2})f-\delta f{\bar {f}}dx} . By discretizing this onto piecewise-constant elements with our signal on the vertices we obtain ∑ i M i δ...
sometimes called the Bartlett window. The most common definition is as a piecewise function: tri ( x ) = Λ ( x ) = def max ( 1 − | x | , 0 ) = { 1...
the stiffness matrix when piecewise quadratic finite elements are used will have more degrees of freedom than piecewise linear elements. Determining...
he obtained second order spatial accuracy. The idea is to replace the piecewise constant approximation of Godunov's scheme by reconstructed states, derived...