Multipoint Taylor formulae
by Shayne Waldron
Abstract:
The main result of this paper is an abstract version of the
{\it Kowalewski -- Ciarlet -- Wagschal} {\it multipoint Taylor formula}
for representing the pointwise error in multivariate Lagrange interpolation.
Several applications of this result are given in the paper.
The most important of these is the construction of a multipoint Taylor error
formula for a {\it general finite element}, together with the corresponding
$L_p$--error bounds. Another application is the construction of a family of
error formulae for linear interpolation (indexed by real
measures of unit mass) which includes some recently obtained formulae.
It is also shown how the problem of constructing an error formula for
Lagrange interpolation from a $D$--invariant space of polynomials with the
property that it involves only derivatives which annihilate the interpolating
space can be reduced to the problem of finding such a formula for a `simpler'
one--point interpolation map.
Keywords:
multipoint Taylor formula,
Kowalewski's remainder,
Lagrange interpolation,
linear interpolation on a triangle,
finite elements,
multivariate Hardy's inequality,
Taylor interpolation,
one-point interpolation
least solution
Math Review Classification:
41A65, 41A80, 65D05 (primary), 41A05, 41A10, 41A44, 41A55 (secondary)
Length:
31 pages (+2 of extra details and references)
Comment:
Written in TeX, contains 4 figures
Last updated:
26 Feb 1998
Status:
To appear in Numerische Mathematik
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