One cubic 3-monotone spline

Abstract

For any 3-monotone on $[a,b]$ function $f$ (its third divided differences are nonnegative for all choices of four distinct points, or equivalently, $f$ has a convex derivative on $(a,b)$) we construct a cubic 3-monotone (like $f$) spline $s$ with $n\in \Bbb N$ "almost" equidistant knots $a_j$ such that $$ \left\Vert f-s \right\Vert_{[a_j,a_{j-1}]} \le c\, \omega_4 \left(f,(b-a)/n,[a_{j+4},a_{j-5}]\cap [a,b]\right), \quad j=1,...,n, $$ where $c$ is an absolute constant, $\omega_4 \left(f,t,[\cdot,\cdot]\right)$ is the $4$-th modulus of smoothness of $f$, and $||\cdot ||_{[\cdot,\cdot]}$ is the max-norm.