The Gibbs phenomenon for best \(L_ 1\)-trigonometric polynomial approximation (Q1900961)

The authors show that the classical Gibbs ``overshooting'' phenomenon is not exclusively a best \(L_2\)-phenomenon, but can also occur for best trigonometric approximants with respect to the \(L_p\)-norm, \(p\geq 1\). Their computer-aided calculations led them to conjecture that the size of the overshoot decreases as the index \(p\) decreases. They determine the \(L_1\)-Gibbs constant, which is substantially smaller than the classical \(L_2\)-Gibbs one. Furthermore, for a class of one-jump discontinuous functions \(f\), they prove that the best \(L_1\)-trigonometric polynomial approximants converge uniformly to \(f\) on intervals that avoid the jump. In establishing this result, the authors also obtain some strong uniqueness theorems for best \(L_1\)-approximants that are of independent interest. Finally they prove nonuniqueness for the best \(L\)-approximant to functions with two jumps and investigate best \(L_p\)-approximants, \(p> 1\), \(p\neq 2\).