{ "id": "0805.1618", "version": "v1", "published": "2008-05-12T12:17:15.000Z", "updated": "2008-05-12T12:17:15.000Z", "title": "Bernstein operators for exponential polynomials", "authors": [ "J. M. Aldaz", "O. Kounchev", "H. Render" ], "comment": "A very similar version is to appear in Constructive Approximation", "journal": "Constr. Approx. 29 (2009), no. 3, 345--367", "doi": "10.1007/s00365-008-9010-6", "categories": [ "math.CA" ], "abstract": "Let $L$ be a linear differential operator with constant coefficients of order $n$ and complex eigenvalues $\\lambda_{0},...,\\lambda_{n}$. Assume that the set $U_{n}$ of all solutions of the equation $Lf=0$ is closed under complex conjugation. If the length of the interval $[ a,b] $ is smaller than $\\pi /M_{n}$, where $M_{n}:=\\max \\left\\{| \\text{Im}% \\lambda_{j}| :j=0,...,n\\right\\} $, then there exists a basis $p_{n,k}$%, $k=0,...n$, of the space $U_{n}$ with the property that each $p_{n,k}$ has a zero of order $k$ at $a$ and a zero of order $n-k$ at $b,$ and each $% p_{n,k}$ is positive on the open interval $(a,b) .$ Under the additional assumption that $\\lambda_{0}$ and $\\lambda_{1}$ are real and distinct, our first main result states that there exist points $% a=t_{0}