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It is well known that when interpolation points coincide with knots, the knot sequence must obey some restriction in order to guarantee the existence and boundedness of the interpolation projector. But, when the interpolation points are chosen to be the knot averages, the corresponding quadratic or cubic spline interpolation projectors are bounded independently of the knot sequence. Based on this fact, de Boor in 1975 made a conjecture that interpolation by splines of orderk at knot averages is bounded for anyk. In this paper we disprove de Boor's conjecture fork ⩾ 20.
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Communicated by Wolfgang Dahmen.
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Jia, R.Q. Spline interpolation at knot averages. Constr. Approx 4, 1–7 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02075445
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