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Moment Sequences and the Bernstein Polynomials*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Sheldon M. Eisenberg
Sheldon M. Eisenberg*
Affiliation:
Lehigh University
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The Bernstein polynomials

(1.1)

and the Bernstein power series

(1.2)

have been the subject of much research (e. g. [1; 2; 3; 6; 7; 8]). It is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate the relationship between these linear operators and certain classes of moment sequences defined below.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , August 1969 , pp. 401 - 411
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1969

Footnotes

*

This paper is a portion of the author's doctoral dissertation written at Lehigh University in 1967-68 under the direction of Professor J. P. King.

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