On the Hermite interpolation (Q5920463)

The author considers the problem of Hermite polynomial interpolation in the general case in which the maximum order of the interpolated derivatives is allowed to vary from node to node. Explicit representations of the fundamental functions of this problem and their derivatives of any order are obtained in terms of Pólya's cycle index polynomial of the symmetric group, which is also expressed as a Bell exponential polynomial. These results yield explicit asymptotic expansions of the local truncation errors when using the Hermite scheme to approximate function derivatives.