Cardinal interpolation and spline fucntions V. The B-splines for cardinal Hermite interpolation

In the third paper of this series on cardinal spline interpolation 4] Lipow and Schoenberg study the problem of Hermite interpolation

$\text{S(v) = Y}{}_{\mathrm{v}}\text{, S′(v) = Y}{}_{\mathrm{v}}\text{′,…,S}{}^{\mathrm{(r?1)}}\text{(v) = Y}{}_{\mathrm{v}}{}^{\mathrm{(r?1)}}\text{for all}\text{v}$

. The B-splines are there conspicuous by their absence, although they were found very useful for the case γ = 1 of ordinary (or Lagrange) interpolation (see 5–10]). The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the B-splines for the case of Hermite interpolation (γ > 1). In this sense the present paper is a supplement to 4] and is based on its results. This is done in Part I. Part II is devoted to the special case when we want to solve the problem

$\text{S(v) = Y}{}_{\mathrm{v}}\text{, S′(v) = Y}{}_{\mathrm{v}}\text{′}\text{for all}\text{v}$

by quintic spline functions of the class C?(– ∞, ∞). This is the simplest nontrivial example for the general theory. In Part II we derive an explicit solution for the problem (1), where v = 0, 1,…, n.