On Chebyshev quadrature for a special class of weight functions (Q1822290)

Recently \textit{W. Gautschi} [ibid. 24, 473-483 (1984; Zbl 0547.65008)] has proved that the weight functions \(w_{\xi}\) defined by \[ w_{\xi}(x)=| x| (x^ 2-\xi^ 2)^{-}(1-x^ 2)^{-},\quad x\in [-1,-\xi]\cup [\xi,1];\quad =0\quad elsewhere,\quad 0<\xi <1 \] are the only symmetric ones, apart from the Chebyshev weight function, for which there exists for every even n a Chebyshev rule in the strict sense, having n nodes and Gaussian degree 2n-1. In this note we show that for an odd number n of nodes the maximum degree of Chebyshev-type rules for \(w_{\zeta}\) has a completely different behavior from that for even n.