TY - JOUR ID - Alpay2021 LB - Alpay2021 AU - Alpay, Daniel AU - Jorgensen, Palle E.T. TI - New characterizations of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and applications to metric geometry ST - New characterizations of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and applications to metric geometry JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2021 VL - 41 IS - 3 SP - 283 EP - 300 DO - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2021.41.3.283 UR - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2021.41.3.283 AB - We give two new global and algorithmic constructions of the reproducing kernel Hilbert space associated to a positive definite kernel. We further present a general positive definite kernel setting using bilinear forms, and we provide new examples. Our results cover the case of measurable positive definite kernels, and we give applications to both stochastic analysis and metric geometry and provide a number of examples. KW - reproducing kernel KW - positive definite functions KW - approximation KW - algorithms KW - measures KW - stochastic processes SN - 1232-9274 ER -