shape-preserving multivariate polynomial approximation in一种保形多元多项式近似.pdf

IJMMS 2004:7, 325–333 PII. S0161171204306137 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. SHAPE-PRESERVING MULTIVARIATE POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION IN C[−1, 1]m CIPRIAN S. GAL and SORIN G. GAL Received 17 June 2003 We construct multivariate polynomials attached to a function f of m variables, m ≥ 2, which approximate f with Jackson-type rate involving a multivariate Ditzian-Totik ωϕ -modulus 2 and preserve some natural kinds of multivariate monotonicity and convexity of function. The result extends the bivariate case in Gal (2002), but does not follow straight from it and requires a careful calculation. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 41A10, 41A17, 41A29, 41A63. 1. Introduction. In a very recent paper [2] the following approximation result for the bivariate case was proved. Theorem 1.1. If f : [−1, 1]× [−1, 1] → R is continuous, then there exists a sequence of bivariate polynomials {P (f )(x,y); n ,n ∈ N}, where degree (P (f )(x,y)) ≤ n1,n2 1 2 n1,n2 nk with respect to the kth variable, k = 1, 2, such that ϕ 1 1 f −Pn1,n2 (f ) ≤ Cω2 f ; , , ∀n1 ,n2 ∈ N, (1.1) n1 n2 where C 0 is independent of f , n , and n , satisfying, moreover, the following shape- 1 2 preserving properties: (i) if f is convex of order (0,0), then so is Pn1,n1 (f ); (ii) if f is simultaneously convex of orders (−1,0), (0, −1), and (0,0) (i.e.