A. Olevskii, ULAM-ZAHORSKI PROBLEM ON FREE INTERPOLATION BY SMOOTH FUNCTIONS, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 342(2), 1994, pp. 713-727
Let f be a function belonging to C(n)[0, 1]. Is it possible to find a
smoother function g is-an-element-of c(n+1) (or at least C(n+epsilon)
which has infinitely many points of contact of maximal order n with f
(or at east arbitrarily many such points with fixed norm parallel-to g
parallel-to C(n+epsilon)? It turns out that for n = 0 and 1 the answe
r is positive, but if n greater-than-or-equal-to 2, it is negative. Th
is gives a complete solution to the Ulam-Zahorski question on free int
erpolation on perfect sets.