An improved upper bound on the Lebesgue constant of Berrut's rational interpolation operator (Q2252736)

\textit{J.-P. Berrut} [Comput. Math. Appl. 15, No. 1, 1--16 (1988; Zbl 0646.65006)] introduced rational interpolants \(p_n\) to a function \(f\) at the nodes \(x_0, \ldots, x_n\) in the barycentric form \[ p_n[f] (x) = \left.\sum_{j=0}^n \frac{w_j}{x - x_j} f_j \right/ \sum_{j=0}^n \frac{w_j}{x - x_j}, \] where the weights were chosen to be \(w_j = (-1)^j\). For these weights and at equidistant nodes, [\textit{L. Bos} et al., J. Comput. Appl. Math. 236, No. 4, 504--510 (2011; Zbl 1231.41003)] showed that the Lebesgue constant \(\Gamma_n\) of Berrut's rational interpolation operator is bounded from above by \(2 + \ln(n)\). In this paper, this upper bound is improved to \[ \Gamma_n \leq \frac{1}{1 + \frac{\pi^2}{24}} \ln(n+1) + C_n, \] where for instance \(C_n \leq 1.47\) for \(n\geq 10\) and \(C_n \leq 1.00\) for \(n\geq 174\).