Numerical estimation of projection constants (Q4385294)

Let \(B\) be a Banach space and let \(U\) be a linear subspace of \(B\). Denote by \(\rho(U, B)\) the relative projection constant for the pair \((U, B)\) defined by \(\rho(U, B) = \inf\{\| P\| \mid P:B\rightarrow U,P\) being a linear projection\(\}\). The authors obtain lower and upper bounds for \(\rho(\mathbb P_n,C[-1,1])\), where \(\mathbb P_n\) is the subspace of polynomials of degree \( \leq n\) and \(C[-1,1]\) is the space of continuous functions on [-1,1]. The projections are constructed by a discretization of the interval [-1,1] and the corresponding projection constants are obtained by the simplex method for an optimization problem. Numerical explicit bounds are tabulated for \(n\leq 10\).