Statistical lacunary summability and a Korovkin type approximation theorem (Q1762237)

The natural density of a subset \(K\) of the natural numbers is given by \(\lim_n |K_n|/n\), where \(K_n=\{k\leq n: k\in K\}\), if this limit exists. A sequence of real numbers \(\{x_k\}^\infty_1\) is statistically convergent to \(L\) iff for all \(\varepsilon>0\), \(K_\varepsilon=: \{k\in\mathbb N: |x_k-L|\geq\varepsilon\}\) has natural density zero. A lacunary sequence of integers is an increasing sequence \(\theta=\{k_n\}^\infty_0\ni k_0=0\) and \(h_r=: k_r-k_{r-1}\to +\infty\) as \(r\to+\infty\); the \(\theta\)-density of \(K\subseteq\mathbb N\) is defined by \(\delta_\theta(K)=\lim_r\;{1\over h_r}|\{k\in\mathbb N: |x_k-L|\geq\varepsilon\}|\); and a sequence \(\{x_k\}^\infty_1\) is lacunary statistically convergent to \(L\) iff for all \(\varepsilon>0\), \(K_\varepsilon=:\{k\in\mathbb N: |x_k-L|\geq\varepsilon\}\) has \(\theta\)-density 0. In the present work, the authors introduce the concepts of statistical lacunary summability and strongly \(\theta_q\)-convergence \((0<q<+\infty)\), and study the relations connecting lacunary statistical convergence, statistical lacunary summability, and strongly \(\theta_q\)-convergence. Finally, the authors employ this work to establish an approximation theorem analogous to the classical theorem of Korovkin.