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An upper bound on the number of zeros of a piecewise polinomial function

Numerical Analysis 2008-10-16 v1

Abstract

A precise tie between a univariate spline's knots and its zeros abundance and dissemination is formulated. As an application, a conjecture formulated by De Concini and Procesi is shown to be true in the special univariate, unimodular case. As a supplement, the same conjecture is shown, through computing a counterexample, to be false when unimodularity hypothesis is dropped.

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@article{arxiv.0810.2634,
  title  = {An upper bound on the number of zeros of a piecewise polinomial function},
  author = {Marco Caminati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2634},
  year   = {2008}
}

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