MATEMATIQKI VESNIK originalni nauqni rad research paper 66, 2 (2014), 155–164 June 2014 APPROXIMATION OF FUNCTIONS BELONGING TO THE GENERALIZED LIPSCHITZ CLASS BY C 1 · Np SUMMABILITY METHOD OF CONJUGATE SERIES OF FOURIER SERIES Vishnu Narayan Mishra, Kejal Khatri and Lakshmi Narayan Mishra Abstract. In the present study, a new theorem on the degree of approximation of function f˜, conjugate to a periodic function f belonging to weighted W (Lr , ξ(t))-class using semimonotonicity on the generating sequence {pn } has been established. 1. Introduction In 1941, Alexits [1] (later Zygmund [22] and Zamansky [20], too) proved a very interesting result pertaining to the degree of approximation of conjugate functions. The degree of approximation of functions belonging to Lip α, Lip(α, r), Lip(ξ(t), r) and W (Lr , ξ(t))-classes, (r ≥ 1) by Nörlund (Np ) matrices and general summability matrices has been proved by various investigators like Khan [6], Mohapatra and Sahney [15,16], Qureshi [18], Mohapatra and Chandra [12–14], Holland et al. [5], Das et al. [3], Mittal et al. [9-11], Chandra [2], Leindler [8], Rhoades et al. [19] and Nigam and Sharma [17]. Recently, Lal [7] has proved a theorem on the degree of approximation of function f belonging to weighted W (Lr , ξ(t))-class by C 1 · Np summability method of its Fourier series of a 2π-periodic function f where ξ(t) is a positive increasing function in t. Lal [7] has assumed monotonicity on the generating sequence {pn }. The approximation of function f˜, conjugate to a periodic function f ∈ W (Lr , ξ(t)) (r ≥ 1) using product C 1 · Np -summability has not been studied so far. In this paper, we obtain a new theorem on the degree of approximation of function f˜, conjugate to a periodic function f ∈ W (Lr , ξ(t))-class using semimonotonicity on the generating sequence {pn }. P∞ Let n=0 an be a given infinite series with the sequence of nth partial sums {sn }. Let {pn } be a non-negative sequence of constants, real or complex, and let 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 40G05, 42B05, 42B08. Keywords and phrases: Generalized Lipschitz W (Lr , ξ(t))-class of functions; conjugate Fourier series; degree of approximation; C 1 means; Np means; product summability C 1 · Np transform. 155 156 V.N. Mishra, K. Khatri, L.N. Mishra us write Pn = n P pk 6= 0 ∀ n ≥ 0, p−1 = 0 = P−1 and Pn → ∞ as n → ∞. k=0 Pn pn−ν s̃n The sequence to sequence transformation t̃N defines the sequence n = ν=0 Pn N {t̃n } of Nörlund means of P the sequence {s̃n }, generated by the sequence of co∞ efficients {pn }. The series n=0 an is said to be Np summable to the sum s if limn→∞ t̃N n exists and is equal to s. In the special case in which ¶ µ n+α−1 Γ(n + α) ; (α > 0), pn = = α−1 Γ(n + 1)Γ(α) the Nörlund summability Np reduces to the familiar C α summability. The product of C 1 summability with a Np summability defines C 1 ·Np summaPn −1 Pk 1 bility. Thus the C 1 ·Np mean is given by t̃CN n (f ) = n+1 k=0 Pk ν=0 pk−ν s̃ν (f ). P∞ CN If t̃n (f ) → s as n → ∞, then the infinite series n=0 an or the sequence {s̃n } is said to be C 1 · Np summable to the sum s. −1 s̃n → s =⇒ Np (s̃n ) = t̃N n = Pn n P ν=0 pn−ν s̃n → s, as n → ∞, Np method is regular, → s, as n → ∞, C 1 method is regular, =⇒ C 1 (Np (s̃n )) = t̃CN n =⇒ C 1 · Np method is regular. Let f (x) be a 2π-periodic and Lebesgue integrable function. The Fourier series of f (x) is given by f (x) ∼ ∞ ∞ P P a0 + (an cos nx + bn sin nx) ≡ An (f ; x) 2 n=1 n=0 (1.1) with n-th partial sums sn (f ; x). The conjugate series of Fourier series (1.1) is given by ∞ P n=1 (bn cos nx − an sin nx) ≡ ∞ P n=1 Bn (f ; x). A function f (x) ∈ Lip α if |f (x + t) − f (x)| = O(|t| α ) for 0 ≤ α ≤ 1, t ≥ 0, and f (x) ∈ Lip(α, r) for 0 ≤ x ≤ 2π, if µ Z 2π ¶1/r r |f (x + t) − f (x)| dx = O(|t|α ), 0 ≤ α ≤ 1, r ≥ 1, t ≥ 0, 0 f (x) ∈ Lip(ξ(t), r) if µ Z 2π ¶1/r |f (x + t) − f (x)|r dx = O(ξ(t)), r ≥ 1, t ≥ 0, 0 (1.2) Approximation of functions belonging to the generalized Lipschitz class 157 f (x) ∈ W (Lr , ξ(t)) [19] if µ Z 2π ¶1/r ωr (t; f ) = = O(ξ(t)), |(f (x + t) − f (x)) sinβ (x/2)|r dx 0 β ≥ 0, r ≥ 1, t ≥ 0, where ξ(t) is a positive increasing function of t. If β = 0 then W (Lr , ξ(t)) reduces to the class Lip(ξ(t), r), if ξ(t) = tα , (0 ≤ α ≤ 1) then Lip(ξ(t), r) class coincides with the class Lip(α, r) and if r → ∞ then Lip(α, r) reduces to the class Lip α. L∞ -norm of a function f : R → R is defined by kf k∞ = sup{|f (x)| : x ∈ R}. ¡ R 2π ¢1/r Lr -norm of f is defined by kf kr = 0 |f (x)|r dx , r ≥ 1. The degree of approximation of a function f : R → R by trigonometric polynomial tn of order n under sup norm k k∞ is defined by [21]: ktn − f k∞ = sup{|tn − f (x)| : x ∈ R}, and En (f ) of a function f ∈ Lr is given by En (f ) = min ktn (f ) − f (x)kr . n The conjugate function f˜(x) is defined for almost every x by µ ¶ Z Z −1 π −1 π ˜ f (x) = ψ(t) cot(t/2) dt = lim ψ(t) cot(t/2) dt . h→0 2π 0 2π h CN are also trigonometric polynomials of degree (or order) n We note that t̃N n and t̃n and the series, conjugate to a Fourier series, is not necessarily a Fourier series [21]. Hence a separate study of conjugate series is desirable and attracted the attention of researchers. Abel’s Transformation: The formula n n−1 P P uk vk = Uk (vk − vk+1 ) − Um−1 vm + Un vn , (1.3) k=m k=m where 0 ≤ m ≤ n, Uk = u0 + u1 + u2 + · · · + uk , if k ≥ 0, U−1 = 0, which can be verified, is known as Abel’s transformation and will be used extensively in what follows. If vm , vm+1 , . . . , vn are non-negative and non-increasing, the left-hand side of (1.3) does not exceed 2vm maxm−1≤k≤n |Uk | in absolute value. In fact, ¯ P ¯ o n n−1 P ¯ n ¯ uk vk ¯ ≤ max |Uk | (vk − vk+1 + vm + vn = 2vm max |Uk |. (1.4) ¯ k=m k=m We write throughout ψ(t) = f (x + t) − f (x − t), ˜ t) = J(n, Wn = n k P P 1 Pk−1 (ν + 1) |pν − pν−1 |, 2π(n + 1) k=0 ν=0 n k P P cos (k − ν + 1/2)t 1 Pk−1 pν , 2π(n + 1) k=0 sin(t/2) ν=0 (1.5) τ = [1/t], where τ denotes the greatest integer not exceeding 1/t. Furthermore, C denotes an absolute positive constant, not necessarily the same at each occurrence. 158 V.N. Mishra, K. Khatri, L.N. Mishra 2. Main theorem In this section we state our main result. Theorem 1. Let f˜ be the conjugate to a 2π-periodic function f belonging to W (Lr , ξ(t))-class. Then its degree of approximation by C 1 · Np means of conjugate series of Fourier series (1.2) is given by ³ ³ 1 ´´ ˜(x)kr = O (n + 1)β+1/r ξ kt̃CN (f ) − f , (2.1) n n+1 provided {pn } satisfies Wn < C, (2.2) and ξ(t) satisfies the following conditions: µZ {ξ(t/t)} is non-increasing in t, ¶1/r ³ t |ψ(t)| ´r sinβr (t/2) dt = O((n + 1)−1 ) and ξ(t) µZ π ³ t−δ |ψ(t)| ´r ¶1/r dt = O((n + 1)δ ), ξ(t) π/(n+1) (2.3) π/(n+1) 0 (2.4) (2.5) where δ is an arbitrary number such that s(β − δ) − 1 ≥ 0, r−1 + s−1 = 1, 1 ≤ r ≤ ∞; conditions (2.4) and (2.5) hold uniformly in x. π 1 π 1 Remark 1. ξ( n+1 ) ≤ π ξ( n+1 ), for ( n+1 ) ≥ ( n+1 ). Remark 2. Condition Wn < C implies (n + 1)pn < CPn [4]. Remark 3. The product transform C 1 · Np plays an important role in signal theory as a double digital filter [11] and theory of machines in Mechanical Engineering. Remark 4. The condition 1/ sinβ (t) = O(1/tβ ), 1/(n + 1) ≤ t ≤ π used by Lal [7] is not valid since sin t → 0 as t → π. Remark 5. There is a fatal error in the proof of Theorem 2 of Lal [7, p. 349]. In the calculation of |I1 | the author of [7] obtains Z 1/(n+1) h t1−βs−s i dt 1 for some 0 < ² < ; = (1+β)s 1 − βs − s n+1 t ² ¸ h 1 1 βs+s−1 note that −βs − s + 1 < 0. Therefore one has βs+s−1 ²βs+s−1 − (n + 1) , ¡ ¢ which need not be O (n + 1)βs+s−1 , since ² might be O(1/nγ ) for some γ > 1. 3. Lemmas We need the following lemmas for the proof of our theorem. ˜ t)| = O(τ ) for 0 < t ≤ π/(n + 1). Lemma 1. |J(n, Approximation of functions belonging to the generalized Lipschitz class 159 Proof. For 0 < t ≤ π/(n + 1), sin(t/2) ≥ (t/π) and | cos nt| ≤ 1, and we have ¯ ¯ n k ¯ P 1 cos(k − ν + 1/2)t ¯¯ −1 P ˜ t)| = ¯ |J(n, P p ν k ¯ 2π(n + 1) ¯ sin(t/2) ν=0 k=0 ≤ n k P P | cos(k − ν + 1/2)t| 1 Pk−1 pν 2π(n + 1) k=0 | sin(t/2)| ν=0 ≤ n k n P P P 1 1 Pk−1 pν = P −1 Pk = O(τ ). 2t(n + 1) k=0 2t(n + 1) k=0 k ν=0 This completes the proof of Lemma 1. Lemma 2. Let {pn } be a non-negative sequence satisfying (2.2). Then ¶ ³ τ 2 ´µ P n k−1 P ˜ t)| = O(τ ) + O |J(n, Pk−1 |∆pν | uniformly in 0 < t ≤ π. (n + 1) k=τ ν=0 (3.1) Proof. We have n k P P 1 cos(k − ν + 1/2)t Pk−1 pν 2π(n + 1) k=0 sin(t/2) ν=0 ¶ µτ −1 n k P P P 1 cos(k − ν + 1/2)t = + Pk−1 pν 2π(n + 1) k=0 k=τ sin(t/2) ν=0 ˜ ˜ = J1 (n, t) + J2 (n, t), (say), ˜ t) = J(n, where ¯ ¯ ˜ |J1 (n, t)| = ¯¯ (3.2) ¯ k τP −1 cos(k − ν + 1/2)t ¯¯ 1 −1 P P pν ¯ 2π(n + 1) k=0 k ν=0 sin(t/2) k τP −1 P | cos(k − ν + 1/2)t| 1 Pk−1 pν 2π(n + 1) k=0 | sin(t/2)| ν=0 ³ ´ k τ −1 P −1 P 1 τ2 ≤ Pk pν = O (n+1) , 2t(n + 1) k=0 ν=0 ≤ and using Abel’s transformation and sin(t/2) ≥ (t/π), for 0 < t ≤ π, we get ¯ ¯ n k ¯ P 1 cos(k − ν + 1/2)t ¯¯ −1 P ˜ ¯ P |J2 (n, t)| = ¯ pν ¯ 2π(n + 1) k=τ k ν=0 sin(t/2) ¯ ½ µ ¶¯ k−1 n ν ¯ P ¯ P 1 −1 P ¯ Pk |∆pν | ¯ ≤ cos(k − γ + 1/2)t ¯¯ 2t(n + 1) k=τ ν=0 γ=0 ¯µ k ¶¯ ¾ ¯ P ¯ + ¯¯ cos(k − γ + 1/2)t ¯¯ pk γ=0 O(t−1 ) = 2t(n + 1) µ n P k=τ Pk−1 k−1 P ν=0 |∆pν | + n P k=τ ¶ Pk−1 pk , (3.3) 160 V.N. Mishra, K. Khatri, L.N. Mishra Pµ by virtue of the fact that |J˜2 (n, t)| = O ³ k=λ τ2 (n + 1) exp(−ikt) = O(t−1 ), 0 ≤ λ ≤ k ≤ µ. Hence, ¶ ´µ P n k−1 n P (k+1) −1 P −1 Pk |∆pν | + Pk pk (k+1) ν=0 k=τ k=τ µ n ¶ k−1 P τ2 ´ P (n + 1) =O Pk−1 |∆pν | + , (n + 1) k=τ τ ν=0 ¶ ³ τ 2 ´µ P k−1 n P ˜ t)| = O(τ ) + O |∆pν | , Pk−1 |J(n, (n + 1) k=τ ν=0 ³ (3.4) in view of Remark 2. Combining (3.2)–(3.4) yields (3.1). This completes the proof of Lemma 2. 4. Proof of Theorem 1 Let s̃n (f ; x) denote the partial sum of series (1.2). We have Z π 1 cos(n + 1/2)t s̃n (f ; x) − f˜(x) = ψ(t) dt. 2π 0 sin(t/2) Denoting C 1 · Np means of s̃n (f ; x) by t̃CN n (f ), we write Z π n k P P 1 cos(k − ν + 1/2)t ˜(x) = t̃CN (f ) − f ψ(t) Pk−1 pν dt n 2π(n + 1) sin(t/2) ν=0 k=0 0 Z π ˜ t) dt = ψ(t)J(n, 0 ·Z Z π/(n+1) = π ¸ + 0 ˜ t) dt ψ(t)J(n, π/(n+1) = I1 + I2 say. (4.1) Clearly, |ψ(x + t) − ψ(t)| ≤ |f (u + x + t) − f (u + x)| + |f (u − x − t) − f (u − x)|. Hence, by Minkowski’s inequality, we have µ Z 2π ¶ 1/r |(ψ(x + t) − ψ(t)) sinβ (x/2)|r dx 0 µZ ≤ ¶1/r 2π β r |(f (u + x + t) − f (u + x)) sin (x/2)| dx 0 µZ 2π + |(f (u − x − t) − f (u − x)) sinβ (x/2)|r dx)1/r 0 = O(ξ(t)). Then f ∈ W (Lr , ξ(t)) =⇒ ψ(t) ∈ W (Lr , ξ(t)). Approximation of functions belonging to the generalized Lipschitz class 161 Using Hölder’s inequality, ψ(t) ∈ W (Lr , ξ(t)), condition (2.4), sin(t/2) ≥ (t/π), for 0 < t ≤ π, Lemma 1, Remark 2 and Second Mean Value Theorem for integrals, we have ·Z π/(n+1) ³ ¸1/r ·Z π/(n+1) ³ ˜ t)| ´s ¸1/s t|ψ(t) sinβ (t/2)| ´r ξ(t)|J(n, |I1 | ≤ dt dt ξ(t) t sinβ (t/2) 0 0 ³ 1 ´· Z π/(n+1) ³ ξ(t) ´s ¸1/s dt =O n+1 t2+β 0 n³ 1 ´ ³ π ´o· Z π/(n+1) ³ 1 ´s ¸1/s =O ξ dt n+1 n+1 t2+β 0 ³ ³ 1 ´´ = O (n + 1)β+1/r ξ , r−1 + s−1 = 1. (4.2) n+1 Using Lemma 2, we have ·Z π ¸ ·Z π µ n ¶ ¸ P −1 k−1 P |ψ(t)| |ψ(t)| dt + O τ Pk |I2 | = O |∆pν | dt t ν=0 k=τ π/(n+1) π/(n+1) t(n + 1) = O(I21 ) + O(I22 ). Using Hölder’s inequality, conditions (2.3) and (2.5), | sin t| ≤ 1, sin(t/2) ≥ (t/π), for 0 < t ≤ π, Remark 2 and Second Mean Value Theorem for integrals, we have ·Z π ³ ´s ¸1/s ³ t−δ |ψ(t)| sinβ (t/2) ´r ¸1/r ·Z π ξ(t) dt dt |I21 | ≤ −δ+1 sinβ (t/2) ξ(t) π/(n+1) t π/(n+1) ·Z π ³ ξ(t) ´s ¸1/s ¡ ¢ = O (n + 1)δ dt −δ+1+β π/(n+1) t · Z (n+1)/π ³ ¸1/s ¡ ¢ ξ(1/y) ´s dy = O (n + 1)δ y δ−1−β y 2 1/π ´ ³ π ¸1/s ³ ´· Z (n+1)/π ξ n+1 dy δ = O (n + 1) π/(n + 1) y (δ−β)s+2 1/π ³ ³ 1 ´´³ (n + 1)(β−δ)s−1 − (π)(−β+δ)s+1 ´1/s = O (n + 1)δ+1 ξ n+1 (β − δ)s − 1 ³ ³ 1 ´´ = O (n + 1)β+1/r ξ , r−1 + s−1 = 1. (4.3) n+1 Similarly as above, using conditions (2.2), (2.3) and (2.5), | sin t| ≤ 1, sin(t/2) ≥ (t/π), for 0 < t ≤ π, Remark 2 and Second Mean Value Theorem for integrals, we have ·Z π ³ t−δ |ψ(t)| sinβ (t/2) ´r ¸1/r |I22 | ≤ dt ξ(t) π/(n+1) ·Z π µ µ n ¶¶s ¤1/s P −1 k−1 P ξ(t) 1 × τ Pk |∆pν | dt β −δ+1 sin (t/2) n + 1 ν=0 k=τ π/(n+1) t 162 V.N. Mishra, K. Khatri, L.N. Mishra ·Z ¡ ¢ δ−1 = O (n + 1) µ π π/(n+1) ·Z ¡ ¢ δ−1 = O (n + 1) π π/(n+1) ·Z ¡ ¢ δ−1 = O (n + 1) π t µ µ n ¶¶s ¸1/s P −1 k−1 P Pk τ |∆pν | dt −δ+1+β ξ(t) ξ(t) t−δ+1+β µ ξ(t) µ k=τ µ ν=0 k=τ n P n P Pk−1 Pk−1 k−1 P ν=0 k P ¶¶s ¸1/s (ν + 1)|∆pν | dt ¶¶s ¸1/s (ν + 1)|∆pν | dt t−δ+1+β k=0 ν=0 µ ¶s ¸1/s π ξ(t) Wn 2π (n + 1) dt t−δ+1+β π/(n+1) ·Z π µ ¶s ¸1/s ¢ ¡ ξ(t) δ = O (n + 1) dt t−δ+1+β π/(n+1) ¶s ¸1/s · Z (n+1)/π µ ¡ ¢ ξ(1/y) dy δ = O (n + 1) δ−1−β y y2 1/π ³ ³ 1 ´´ = O (n + 1)β+1/r ξ , r−1 + s−1 = 1. n+1 π/(n+1) ·Z ¡ ¢ δ−1 = O (n + 1) (4.4) Collecting (4.1)–(4.4), we have ³ ³ ˜(x)| = O (n + 1)β+1/r ξ (f ) − f |t̃CN n 1 ´´ . n+1 (4.5) Now, using the L r -norm of a function, we get ¸1/r ·Z 2 π CN ˜(x)|r dx ˜(x)kr = (f ) − f (f ) − f | t̃ kt̃CN n n 0 ·Z ¸1/r 1 ´´r =O (n + 1) ξ dx n+1 0 µ ³ 1 ´µ Z 2π ¶1/r ¶ β+1/r = O (n + 1) ξ dx n+1 0 ³ ³ 1 ´´ = O (n + 1)β+1/r ξ . n+1 2π ³ β+1/r ³ This completes the proof of Theorem 1. 5. Applications The following corollaries can be derived from Theorem 1. Corollary 1. If ξ(t) = tα , 0 < α ≤ 1, then the class Lip(ξ(t), r), r ≥ 1, reduces to the class Lip(α, r), 1r < α < 1 and the degree of approximation of a function f˜(x), conjugate to a 2π-periodic function f belonging to the class Lip(α, r), is given by ¢ ¡ −α+1/r ˜ . (5.1) |t̃CN n (f ) − f (x)| = O (n + 1) Approximation of functions belonging to the generalized Lipschitz class 163 Proof. Putting β = 0 in Theorem 1, we have ·Z 2π ¸1/r ³ ³ 1 ´´ CN CN r ˜ ˜ kt̃n (f ) − f (x)kr = |t̃n (f ) − f (x)| dx = O (n + 1)1/r ξ n+1 0 ¡ ¢ −α+1/r = O (n + 1) . Thus we get ·Z |t̃CN n (f ) 2π − f˜(x)| ≤ 0 |t̃CN n (f ) − f˜(x)|r dx ¸1/r ¡ ¢ = O (n + 1)−α+1/r , r ≥ 1. This completes the proof of Corollary 1. Corollary 2. If ξ(t) = tα for 0 < α < 1, and r → ∞ in Corollary 1, then f ∈ Lip α. In this case, using (5.1) we get that ¡ ¢ −α ˜ kt̃CN . n (f ) − f (x)k∞ = O (n + 1) Proof. 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