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An extension of the Floater–Hormann family of barycentric rational interpolants

Klein, Georges

In: Mathematics of Computation, 2012, vol. 82, no. 284, p. 2273-2292

The barycentric rational interpolants introduced by Floater and Hormann in 2007 are “blends” of polynomial interpolants of fixed degree d. In some cases these ratio- nal functions achieve approximation of much higher quality than the classical poly- nomial interpolants, which, e.g., are ill-conditioned and lead to Runge’s phenomenon if the interpolation nodes are equispaced. For such...

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Barycentric rational interpolation at quasi-equidistant nodes

Hormann, Kai ; Klein, Georges ; De Marchi, Stefano

In: Dolomites Research Notes on Approximation, 2012, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 1-6

A collection of recent papers reveals that linear barycentric rational interpolation with the weights suggested by Floater and Hormann is a good choice for approximating smooth functions, especially when the interpolation nodes are equidistant. In the latter setting, the Lebesgue constant of this rational interpolation process is known to grow only logarithmically with the number of nodes....

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On the Lebesgue constant of barycentric rational interpolation at equidistant nodes

Bos, Len ; De Marchi, Stefano ; Hormann, Kai ; Klein, Georges

In: Numerische Mathematik, 2012, vol. 121, p. 461–471

Recent results reveal that the family of barycentric rational interpolants introduced by Floater and Hormann is very well-suited for the approximation of functions as well as their derivatives, integrals and primitives. Especially in the case of equidistant interpolation nodes, these infinitely smooth interpolants offer a much better choice than their polynomial analogue. A natural and important...