Local smoothness of functions and Baskakov-Durrmeyer operators (Q5961547)

A function \(f\in \mathbb{C}[0,\infty)\) is called locally \(\text{Lip }\alpha\) \((0<\alpha\leq 1)\) on some subset \(E\) of \([0,\infty)\) if it satisfies the condition \(|f(x)- f(y)|\leq M_f|x-y|^\alpha\), \(x\in[0,\infty)\), \(y\in E\). The main result of this paper characterizes these functions by the local order of convergence \(V_n(f,x)\to f(x)\), \(x\in[0,\infty)\) for \(n\to\infty\), where \((V_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}\) denotes the sequence of Baskakov-Durrmeyer operators. Crucial for the proof is the commutativity of these operators. Moreover the inverse part of the proof needs certain local Bernstein-type inequalities (Lemmas 2.3 and 2.4) which are proved before in detail.