Abstract

We consider the best approximation by Jackson-Matsuoka polynomials in the weighted space on the unit sphere of . Using the relation between -functionals and modulus of smoothness on the sphere, we obtain the direct and inverse estimate of approximation by these polynomials for the -spherical harmonics.

1. Introduction and Notations

Let denote the unit sphere in , where denotes the usual Euclidean norm, the set of real numbers. For a nonzero vector , let denote the reflection with respect to the hyperplane perpendicular to , where denote the usual Euclidean inner product. Let be a finite reflection group on with a fixed positive root system , normalized so that for all . Then is a subgroup of the orthogonal group generated by the reflections . Let be a nonnegative multiplicity function defined on with the property that whenever is conjugate to in , then is a -invariant function. We consider the weighted best approximation with respect to the measure on , where is defined by is the surface (Lebesgue) measure on . The function is a positive homogeneous function of degree , and it is invariant under the reflection group. We denote by the normalization constant of and denote by , , the space of functions defined on with the finite norm and for we assume that is replaced by the space of continuous functions on with the usual uniform norm .

denote the -Laplacian. is the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the sphere. denote the subspace of homogeneous polynomials of degree in variables. The -harmonics are defined as the homogeneous polynomials satisfying the equation . Furthermore, let denote the space of -spherical harmonics of degree in variables. The spherical -harmonics are the restriction of -harmonics on the unit sphere. It is well known that spherical -harmonics are eigenfunctions of ; that is,

The standard Hilbert space theory shows that . That is, with each we can associate its -harmonic expansion in norm. For the surface measure (), such a series is called the Laplace series (see [1]). The orthogonal projection takes the form where is the reproducing kernel of the space of -harmonics , which is given by (see [2]) is the ultraspherical polynomial of degree , , and the intertwining operator is a linear operator uniquely determined by

The spherical means are denoted by where .

The spherical means associated with , in which is defined by where is any function such that the integral in the right-hand side is finite, . is a proper extension of , since satisfies when and , and the properties of are well known (see [2]). In particular, the function has the expansion Simultaneously, they lead to the following definition of an analog of the modulus of smoothness.

Definition 1.1 (see [2]). For , , or , the modulus of smoothness on the sphere is given by The -functional of the sphere is given by where , , is a positive constant.

In [2], Xu proved the weak equivalence relation Throughout this paper, denotes a positive constant independent on and and denotes a positive constant dependent on , which may be different according to the circumstances.

Based on the classical Jackson-Matsuoka kernel (see [3]), we define a new kernel where is a constant chosen such that . It is known that is an even nonnegative operator. In particular, it is an even nonnegative trigonometric polynomial of degree at most for and the Jackson polynomial for . Using we consider the spherical convolution It is called the Jackson-Matsuoka polynomials on the sphere based on the Jackson-Matsuoka kernel. In particular, for . The classical Jackson-Matsuoka polynomials in the classical space have been studied by many authors (see [3, 4]).

The purpose of this paper is to consider approximation by -harmonic polynomials, which in the metric can be viewed as weighted approximation, in which the measure on the sphere is replaced by . It is well known that the situation can be quite different from that of ordinary harmonics; the weighted approximation is not a simple extension. Since the orthogonal group acts transitively on the sphere , much of the results for the ordinary harmonics can be proved by considering just one point; the reflection groups do not act transitively on the sphere.

In this paper, we consider weighted approximation of the Jackson-Matsuoka polynomials on the sphere. With the help of the relation between -functionals and modulus of smoothness of sphere and the properties of the spherical means, we obtain the direct and inverse estimate for the best approximation by Jackson-Matsuoka polynomials in the weighted space on the unit sphere of . We only consider best weighted approximation by Jackson-Matsuoka polynomials, and for the other polynomials on the unit sphere of , the methods and the results are similar.

2. Auxiliary Lemmas

We need the following lemmas.

Lemma 2.1. Let . Then, the weak equivalence holds true for , , where the weak equivalence relation means that and , and relation means that there is a positive constant independent on such that holds.

The proof is similar to that of Lemma 2.2 and we omit it.

Lemma 2.2. For , , , there is a constant such that

Proof. Since and hold for , by , we have where Lemma 2.2 has been proved.

Lemma 2.3 (see [2]). For , one has where and .

Lemma 2.4. Let be the Jackson-Matsuoka polynomials on the sphere based on the Jackson-Matsuoka kernel, . Then, there is a constant such that where .

Proof. By Lemma 2.3, we have where By Lemma 2.1, we have We now estimate, using Lemma 2.3 again, the expression , and obtain By Lemma 2.2 and Hölder-Minkowski inequality shows that Consequently, by (2.8), (2.10), and (2.12) we complete the proof of this lemma.

Lemma 2.5. For , there is a constant such that

Proof. By the equivalence relation between the modulus of smoothness and -functional, and the definition of , we have Lemma 2.5 has been proved.

3. Main Results

Our main results are the following.

Theorem 3.1. Suppose that is the Jackson-Matsuoka polynomials on the sphere based on the Jackson-Matsuoka kernel, , . Then

Proof. First we prove . Since for , therefore, we have that Splitting the integral over into two integrals over and , respectively, and using the definition of , we conclude that From Lemma 2.5 it follows that, for , Therefore, it follows that From Lemma 2.2, we get Next we prove . Let be a fixed positive integer Denote by By orthogonality of the orthogonal projector , we have that Leting , by (3.8) we get where .
On the other hand, Note that [5] For , from (2.2) it follows that holds for . For , by (2.2), we get Consequently, the inequality holds uniformly for . Without loss of generality, we may assume , . Using Lemma 2.4 and (3.8), we have Consequently, , by the definition of and (1.13) shows that that is, .
The proof is completed.

Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank Professor Norimichi Hirano and the anonymous referees for their valuable comments, remarks, and suggestions which greatly help us to improve the presentation of this paper and make it more readable. Project is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 10671019), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant no. Y12A010022), and Cultivation Fund of Taizhou University.