Global side-of-the-chord behavior for extensions larger than the self-dual extension

Establish that, for the Poisson operator and every extension parameter \(\delta>L/2\), the tail law \(r_\omega(\tau)\) lies below the chord \(-a(\omega)\tau\) throughout the entire interval \(0<\tau<\kappa_\sigma(\omega)\), equivalently that for \(\delta<L/2\) it lies above the chord; determine whether the associated sharp power law holds at all tail levels.

Background

For the one-dimensional Poisson operator, the paper identifies the exponential tail behavior of the leakage and restricted Marcinkiewicz–Zygmund constants through a constrained logarithmic-equilibrium problem. The chord −a(ω)τ-a(\omega)\tau corresponds to the endpoint power-law exponent a(ω)a(\omega). The tail law is proved to start above this chord when δ<L/2\delta<L/2, below it when δ>L/2\delta>L/2, and to coincide with it for the self-dual extension δ=L/2\delta=L/2.

Certified interpolation configurations establish the below-chord behavior for δ=L\delta=L and δ=2L\delta=2L over substantial portions of the tail, but not over the full interval. A full result would clarify whether a power-law bound with constants independent of both NN and the threshold tt holds for extensions larger than the self-dual one.

References

We conjecture that for $\delta > L/2$ the tail law lies below the chord along the whole tail, as the computations show and as certified interpolation configurations prove for $\delta = L$ and $\delta = 2L$ along most of the tail, and equivalently, by Theorem~\ref{thm:tail_duality}, that for $\delta < L/2$ it lies above the chord.

— Numerical Stability of Extended-Domain Spectral Collocation: Floating-Point Regularization and an Equilibrium Law for the Frame Constants  (2610.13222 - Wu, 9 Oct 2026) in Conclusion, Section 6; Scope paragraph in Section 1

For convection--diffusion the computed tail is the same (Section~\ref{sec:num_bound}), but a proof is open.

— Numerical Stability of Extended-Domain Spectral Collocation: Floating-Point Regularization and an Equilibrium Law for the Frame Constants  (2610.13222 - Wu, 9 Oct 2026) in Conclusion, Section 6; paragraph following Theorem 4.20