A degree by degree recursive construction of Hermite spline interpolants

  • Authors:
  • Xuli Han

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mathematics and Computing Technology, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, PR China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Based on the classical Hermite spline interpolant H"2"n"-"1, which is the piecewise interpolation polynomial of class C^n^-^1 and degree 2n-1, a piecewise interpolation polynomial H"2"n of degree 2n is given. The formulas for computing H"2"n by H"2"n"-"1 and computing H"2"n"+"1 by H"2"n are shown. Thus a simple recursive method for the construction of the piecewise interpolation polynomial set {H"j} is presented. The piecewise interpolation polynomial H"2"n satisfies the same interpolation conditions as the interpolant H"2"n"-"1, and is an optimal approximation of the interpolant H"2"n"+"1. Some interesting properties are also proved.