Some Properties for Analysis-suitable T-splines

Analysis-suitable T -splines (AS T -splines) are a mildly topological restricted subset of T -splines which are linear independent regardless of knot values [1–3]. The present paper provides some more iso-geometric analysis (IGA) oriented properties for AS T splines and generalizes them to arbitrary topology AS T -splines. First, we prove that the blending functions for analysis-suitable T -splines are locally linear independent, which is the key property for localized multi-resolution and linear independence for non-tensorproduct domain. And then, we prove that the number of T -spline control points contribute each Bézier element is optimal, which is very important to obtain a bound for the number of non zero entries in the mass and stiffness matrices for IGA with T -splines. Moreover, it is found that the elegant labeling tool for B-splines, blossom, can also be applied for analysis-suitable T -splines. Mathematics subject classification: 65D07.