Monotone cubic interpolation

About: Monotone cubic interpolation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1740 publications have been published within this topic receiving 38111 citations.

Linear Spaces on Cubic Hypersurfaces, and Pairs of Homogeneous Cubic Equations

Abstract: A remarkable theorem of Birch [2] shows that a system of homogeneous polynomials with rational coefficients has a non-trivial zero, provided only that these polynomials are of odd degree, and the system has sufficiently many variables in terms of the number and degrees of these polynomials. Despite four decades of effort, the problem of obtaining a reasonable bound for the latter number of variables has proved to be one of great difficulty. When the system consists of a single cubic form, Davenport [4] has succeeded in showing that 16 variables suffice, and Schmidt [17, 18, 19, 20] has devoted a series of papers to systems of cubic forms, showing in particular that 5140 variables suffice for pairs of cubic forms, and that (10r)& variables suffice for systems of r cubic forms. The current state of knowledge for forms of higher degree is, by comparison, extremely weak (but see [21, 22]), and so it seems worthwhile expending further effort on the case of systems of cubic forms. In this paper we improve on Schmidt’s result for pairs of cubic forms. In contrast with the sophisticated versions of the Hardy–Littlewood method employed by Davenport and Schmidt, our approach is based on an elementary idea of Lewis [12], and is applicable in arbitrary number fields. This method also has consequences for the existence of linear spaces of rational solutions on cubic hypersurfaces, thereby improving on work of Lewis and Schulze-Pillot [14] on this topic. Before describing our main theorem we require some notation. When K is a field, and r and m are non-negative integers, let γ K (r ;m) denote the least integer (if any such integer exists) with the property that whenever s" γ K (r ;m), and f i (x) `K [x " ,... ,x s ] (1% i% r) are cubic forms, then the system of equations f i (x) ̄ 0 (1% i% r) possesses a solution set which contains a linear subspace of K s with projective dimension m. If no such integer exists, define γ K (r ;m) to be ­¢. Also, let β K (r ;m) denote the corresponding integer when the cubic forms are replaced by quadratic forms. We abbreviate γ K (r ; 0) to γ K (r), and γ K (1 ; 0) to γ K .

Piecewise C 1 -shape-preserving Hermite interpolation

Abstract: A local scheme for piecewiseC 1-Hermite interpolation is presented. The interpolant is obtained patching together cubic with quadratic polynomial segments; it is co-monotone and/or co-convex with the data. Under appropriate assumptions the method is fourth-order accurate.

Hermite interpolation in several variables using ideal-theoretic methods

Abstract: The ideal-theoretic concept of the Hermite interpolation was presented in [9]. Some of its results are summarized in this paper. By consideration of special ideals a n-dimensional generalization of Max Noether's theorem is obtained. This generalization enables us to answer questions arising in the constructive theory of functions as it is shown by three examples.