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Does every positive continuous function have a non-negative interpolating polynomial of every degree?
Let $f:[a,b] \to (0,\infty)$ be a continuous function. Then is it necessarily true that for every $n\ge 1$, we can find $n+1$ distinct points $\{x_0,x_1,...,x_n\}$ in $[a,b]$ such that the ...
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Maximum of a B-spline
Given $p+2$ nondecreasing (and not all identical) knots $t_0, \ldots, t_{p+1}$ on the real line, consider the normalized B-spline of degree $p$ defined over these knots.
We know that the B-spline is ...
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Multivariate polynomial interpolations
I have a multi-variate, continuous function from $R^n$ to $R$, which I can query for its output for any input. I would like to create an interpolation of that function by sampling a subset of the ...
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Do interpolation nodes have to be dense?
Let $f(x) = \exp(x)$ and $(\xi_i)_{i=0}^\infty, \, \xi_i \in (0,1)$ be a sequence of points from the unit interval.
For $n \in \mathbb{N}$ let $P_n$ be a polynomial of degree $n$ that interpolates $f$...
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Marsden's Identity and B-splines
Marsden's Identity states that for every $\tau$ in $\mathbb{R }$:
$$(\cdot -\tau)^{k-1}=\sum_j\Psi_{j,k}(\tau)B_{j,k,t} \, ,$$
with $\Psi_{j,k}=(t_j-\tau)\times...\times(t_{j+k-1}-\tau)$.
Following ...
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For every table of interpolating nodes, there is a positive continuous function whose interpolating polynomials are not positive infinitely often
Fix an interval $[a,b]$. Is it true that for every table of interpolating nodes $\{x_{0,n},x_{1,n}...,x_{n,n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$, there exists a continuous function $f:[a,b]\to (0,\infty)$ such that ...
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Smallest degree of approximating polynomial
Let $\{0,1\}^n=S_0\cup S_1$ withh $S_0\cap S_1=\emptyset$.
Let $\epsilon\in[\frac{1}2,1)$.
Let $f:\Bbb R^n\rightarrow\Bbb R$ be a polynomial such that $$f(S_0)=0,\mbox{ }f(S_1)\subseteq[1-\epsilon,1+...
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How to optimally choose points for multivariable Hermite interpolation?
I have a multi-variate, continuous function $f$ from $R^n$ to $R$, which I can query for its output for any input.
I would like to create interpolation polynomial for it.
The computation of $f$ is ...
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Mismatching degrees and # derivatives in polynomial interpolation error formula
It is well known that if $f : [a,b] \to \mathbb{R}$ is $n+1$ times differentiable and $p(x)$ denotes the polynomial interpolant to $f(x)$ in the $n+1$ points $\bigl(x_k \in [a,b]\bigr)_{k = 1}^{n+1}$, ...
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For which $n$, can we find a sequence of $n+1$ distinct points s.t. the interpolating polynomial of every +ve continuous function is itself +ve
Fix an interval $[a,b]$. For which integers $n>1$, does there exist $n+1$ distinct points $\{x_0,x_1,...,x_n\}$ in $[a,b]$ such that for every continuous function $f:[a,b] \to (0,\infty)$, the ...
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