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On Polynomials with Curved Majorants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

D. J. Newman
Affiliation:
Temple University, Philadephia, Pennsylvania
T. J. Rivlin
Affiliation:
Watson Research Center, IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York
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A well-known result of Chebyshev is that if pnPn, (Pn is the set of polynomials of degree at most n) and

(1)

then an(pn), the leading coefficient of pn, satisfies

(2)

with equality holding only for pn = ±Tn, where Tn is the Chebyshev polynomial of degree n. (See [6, p. 57].) This is an example of an extremal problem in which the norm of a given linear operator on Pn is sought. Another example is A. A. Markov's result that (1) implies that

(3)

There are also results for the linear functionals pn(k)(x0), x0 real, k = 1, … n – 1 ([8]).

Suppose φ(x) ≧ 0 on [–1, 1] and (1) is generalized to

as suggested by Rahman [4] (polynomials with curved majorants), what can then be said about the analogue of (3) or similar extremal problems?

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1982

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