Spline approximation methods cutting off singularities (Q1329651)

The author develops a Banach algebra technique for proving stability results of spline approximation methods for one-dimensional singular integral and Mellin convolution equations. In general, usual spline methods can show a singular behavior caused by discontinuities in the coefficients or by non-smooth geometries of the underlying curves, and it is often a hard problem to get stability of those methods for concrete equations. To overcome this difficulty nowadays approximation methods with modified spline spaces are considered, where a finite number of basis splines supported near discontinuities are omitted. Using this cutting-off many stability results were obtained for different approximation methods and equations even in the multivariate case. The present paper proposes a general method to derive such stability results. The author generalizes the technique to transform stability problems of approximation methods into invertibility problems in Banach algebras of operator sequences to the case of doubly-indiced sequences and gives necessary and sufficient conditions for the stability of cutting-off methods. As an example these conditions are effectively derived for the modified Galerkin approximation of different integral equations.