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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2009
Martin H. Schultz [Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1970), 840–844] has investigated the spectral condition number of the Rayleigh-Ritz-Galerkin matrices that arise when normalized B-spline coordinate functions are used to approximate the solution of a class of linear, self-adjoint, elliptic boundary value problems in one dimension. This paper shows how results analogous to those of Schultz [op. cit.] can be established under weaker assumptions. We also extend the results to boundary value problems in higher dimensions.