Some qualitative properties of bivariate Euler-Frobenius polynomials

Abstract Let Mn denote the bivariate box-spline corresponding to the directions (1, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1), each occuring with multiplicity n. We determine the critical points of the polynomials Pn(x) = ∑j ϵ Z2 Mn(j) eijx, nϵF.