$h$-Trigonometric B-splines

Abstract: We introduce discrete analogues of the exponential, sine, and cosine functions. Then using a discrete trigonometric version of a non-polynomial divided difference, we define discrete analogues of the trigonometric B-splines. We derive a two-term recurrence relation, a two-term formula for the discrete derivative, and two variants of the Marsden identity for these discrete trigonometric B-splines. Since the classical exponential, sine, and cosine functions are limiting cases of their discrete analogues, we conclude that many of the standard results for classical polynomial B-splines extend naturally both to trigonometric B-splines and to discrete trigonometric B-splines.