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Best approximation and de la Vallée–Poussin sums
W. Dahmen Mathematisches Institut der Universit\"at Bonn
Abstract:
For the class $C_\varepsilon=\{f\in C_{2\pi}: E_n[f]\leqslant\varepsilon_n, n\leqslant\mathbf{Z}_+\}$, where
$\{\varepsilon_n\}_{n\in\mathbf{Z}_+}$ is a sequence of numbers tending monotonically to zero,
we establish the following precise (in the sense of order) bounds for the error of approximation
by de la Vallée–Poussin sums:
$$
c_1\sum_{j=n}^{2(n+l)}\frac{\varepsilon_j}{l+j-n+1}\leqslant\sup_{f\in C_\varepsilon}||f-V_{n,l}(f)||_C
\leqslant c_2\sum_{j=n}^{2(n+l)}\frac{\varepsilon_j}{l+j-n+1}\qquad(n\in\mathrm{N}),\eqno{(1)}
$$
where
$c_1$ and
$c_2$ are constants which do not depend on
$n$ or
$l$.
This solves the problem posed by S. B. Stechkin at the Conference on Approximation Theory
(Bonn, 1976) and permits a unified treatment of many earlier results obtained only for
special classes
$C_\varepsilon$ of (differentiable) functions. The result (1) substantially refines the estimate (see [1])
$$
||V_{n,l}(f)-f||_C=O(\log n/(l+1)+1)E_n[f]\qquad(n\to\infty)\eqno{(2)}
$$
and includes as particular cases the estimates of approximations by Fejér sums (see [2])
and by Fourier sums (see [3]).
UDC:
517.5
Received: 22.02.1977