Weighted means of B-splines, positivity of divided differences, and complete homogeneous symmetric polynomials

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2020.08.018MaRDI QIDQ2226417zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephan Ramon Garcia, Mohamed Omar, Christopher O'Neill, A. Böttcher

Publication date 12 February 2021

Published in Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01658

zbMATH Keywords

determinantdivided differencepositivitysplinesymmetric polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Spline approximation (41A15)

Abstract: We employ the fact certain divided differences can be written as weighted means of B-splines and hence are positive. These divided differences include the complete homogeneous symmetric polynomials of even degree $2p$, the positivity of which is a classical result by D. B. Hunter. We extend Hunter's result to complete homogeneous symmetric polynomials of fractional degree, which are defined via Jacobi's bialternant formula. We show in particular that these polynomials have positive real part for real degrees $mu$ with $|mu-2p|<1/2$. We also prove a positivity criterion for linear combinations of the classical complete homogeneous symmetric polynomials and a sufficient criterion for the positivity of linear combinations of products of such polynomials.

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