Representation of quasi-interpolants as differential operators and applications (Q4699404)

Many of the better known positive approximation operators leave invariant the spaces \(\Pi_n\), of polynomials of degree \(n\), and they are linear isomorphisms on these spaces. Let \(\mathcal B_n\) denote such an operator. Then as an operator from \(\Pi_n\) into itself, it has an inverse \(\mathcal A_n\). Many of these operators, i.e., the Bernstein polynomials, the Bernstein-Durrmeyer polynomials, the Szász-Mirakyan power series etc., may be represented as linear differential operators with polynomial coefficients, say, in the form \(\mathcal B_n=\sum_{k=0}^n\beta_n^k D^k\), where \(D=d/dx\), and then the inverses have a similar representation, say, \(\mathcal A_n=\sum_{k=0}^n\alpha_n^kD^k\). The author continues his investigation of the two families of operators associated with the above, denoting the truncated inverses \(\mathcal A_n^{(r)}=\sum_{k=0}^r\alpha_n^kD^k\) and define the left quasi-interpolants and right quasi-interpolants, respectively by \[ \mathcal B_n^{(r)}:=\mathcal A_n^{(r)}\circ\mathcal B_n,\quad 0\leq r\leq n, \] and \[ \mathcal B_n^{[r]}:=\mathcal B_n\circ\mathcal A_n^{(r)},\quad 0\leq r\leq n. \] The paper contains recursive formulae for the \(\beta\)'s and the \(\alpha\)'s of various known operators, and Voronovskaya-type theorems and asymptotic error estimates. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0919.00054].