I'm a newbie and may be this question is bit simple for you but pardon me if it's too simple and provide me some references. What is the eigenfunction of a multivariate gaussian kernel: \begin{equation} f(x,y) = \exp(-\frac{||x - y||^2}{2\sigma^2}) \end{equation} I am interested in the eigenfunctions with respect to L2 norm: \begin{equation} \int f(x, y) v_i(y) dy = \lambda_i v_i(x) \end{equation} and also with respect to a gaussian probability distribution $p(x)$: \begin{equation} \int f(x, y) v_i(y) p(y) dy = \lambda_i v_i(x) \end{equation} I am aware of the numerical approximation to the problem like Nystrom method. However, it should be possible to find a closed form solution when the probability distribution is also gaussian.