Damase's continuity approximation conjecture for positive definite functions on spheres

Let Sn1S^{n-1} be the unit sphere, and let a positive definite function on Sn1S^{n-1} be understood in the usual sense for functions on the sphere. Damase's continuity approximation conjecture. Any positive definite function on Sn1S^{n-1} is a pointwise limit of continuous ones. The conjecture concerns whether continuity can be recovered by pointwise approximation within the class of positive definite functions; the supplied text does not state a resolution.

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Sujit Sakharam Damase and James Eldred Pascoe, “On positive definite thresholding of correlation matrices”, arXiv:2603.11040 (2026).

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