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THE CONCENTRATION PHENOMENON OF THE BEST APPROXIMATION IN Lp SPACES
Jiang Bo LI, Song Ping ZHOU
Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica
2004, 27 (2):
265-273.
DOI: 10.12387/C2004031
Let $1\leq p<+\infty$, and $f(x)$ be a function whose $k$th derivative
is $p$ power intergrable over $[-1,1]$, with usual $L_{p}$ norm. Denote by
$\Pi_n$ the class of polynomials of degree $n$. The present paper is devoted to the research
on a class of functions $f$, which, for a fixed inner point $a$ of the given interval,
possesses the following property:
$$\|f-p_n(f)\|_{L_p[a-\frac{r}{n},a+\frac{r}{n}]}\geq C E_n(f)_p,$$
where $C$, $r$ are constants independent of $n$, $E_n(f)_p=\inf\limits_{p_n\in \Pi_n}
\|f-p_n\|_p=\|f-p_{n}(f)\|_p.$ It is a quite surprising phenomenon that the $L_{p}$ mean
approximation, especially mean best approximation, of some functions, such as power
functions mentioned in \S 3, the products of power functions and ``slowly increasing"
functions, can ``concertrate" in a small interval with an inner point as the center and
$r/n$ as the radius. This phenomenon is thus referred as the ``concertration phenomenon".
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