Superconvergence of Jacobi-Gauss-type spectral interpolation (Q461260)

This paper addresses the superconvergence phenomenon of orthogonal polynomial interpolation, building on the previous work by \textit{Z. Zhang} [SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 50, No. 6, 2966--2985 (2012; Zbl 1262.65020)]. First, the superconvergence points for derivatives of general Jacobi-Gauss-type interpolants are identified from the interpolation error remainder represented by Hermite's contour integral under the analyticity assumption. For functions with limited regularity, it follows that the leading term of the interpolation error remainder vanishes at the superconvergence points, although, in contrast to the analytic case, there is no improvement in the order of convergence. Further, a general framework is proposed for analyzing exponential convergence and superconvergence of polynomial interpolation. For general Jacobi-Gauss-type interpolation, the authors obtain error bounds of the form \(C(N)\rho^{-N}\), with explicit dependence of \(C(N)\) on \(N\), where \(N+1\) is the number of interpolation points and \(\rho > 1\). Numerical results confirm the predicted convergence behaviour.