On Hermite-Fejér interpolation at Jacobi zeros (Q1070143)

Fejér (in case of Chebyshev zeros) and later on Szegö (in case of Jacobi zeros) proved that the sequence of the associated Hermite-Fejér polynomials converges pointwise for \(| x| <1\) if \(\alpha,\beta >- 1\); the convergence is uniform on closed subintervals for these parameters \(\alpha,\beta >-1\) and in the whole interval [-1,1] if \(\max (\alpha,\beta)<0\). In this paper it is shown that these convergence results may be proved via the Bohman-Korovkin theorem for positive functionals. The basic idea is a representation of the value of the Hermite-Fejér functional applied to the test function \((x-t)^ 2\) as a constant multiple of \(\{P_ m^{(\alpha,\beta)}(x)\}^ 2\). The constant may be evaluated by Gaussian quadrature. Next it is shown that the Hermite-Fejér functionals are asymptotically positive. So the Bohman-Korovkin theorem may be applied in a slight modification. Finally the method is applied to Hermite-Fejér interpolation with Jacobi nodes of multiplicity 4.