Optimal interpolating spaces preserving shape (Q1293276)

In this paper the authors study the existence and characterisation of spaces which are images of minimal-norm projections that are required to interpolate at given functionals and satisfy additional shape-preserving requirements. The authors call such spaces optimal interpolating spaces preserving shape. Their investigation leads to concrete solutions in classical settings and as examples, \(\Pi n\), the subspace of all \(n\)th degree algebraic polynomials, are determined to be such spaces with regard to certain interpolation and shape-preserving requirements on the projections. The theory of the paper gives rise to an \(n\)-dimensional Hahn-Banach extension theorem, where the extension is required to keep invariant a fixed cone.