Rational interpolation to |x| at the Chebyshev nodes

Abstract

Recently the authors considered Newman-type rational interpolation to |x| induced by arbitrary sets of interpolation nodes and showed that under mild restrictions on the location of the interpolation nodes, the corresponding sequence of rational interpolants converges to |x|. In the present paper we consider the special case of the Chebyshev nodes which are known to be very efficient for polynomial interpolation. It is shown that, in contrast to the polynomial case, the approximation of |x| induced by rational interpolation at the Chebyshev nodes has the same order as rational interpolation at equidistant points.