Nearly comonotone approximation. II (Q2707262)

In the theory of comonotone approximation on an interval it is well known the possibility to prove the direct approximation theorems with first and second modulus of smoothness and the impossibility of third modulus either with a constant multiplier depending on the set of changing monotonicity points or on the approximated function. The authors introduce in first part of the paper [J. Approximation Theory 95, No. 1, 53-81 (1998; Zbl 0911.41003)] the notion of nearly comonotone approximation which was useful to receive the direct approximation theorem with third modulus of smoothness. Here the authors prove that the fourth modulus of smoothness is not possible in theorems of such a kind and they investigate also different versions of direct approximation theorems with third Ditzian-Totik modulus of smoothness and with higher order modulus of the derivative of the approximated function.