A note on the representation of continuous functions by linear superpositions

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2011.07.005MaRDI QIDQ765901zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vugar E. Ismailov

Publication date 22 March 2012

Published in Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05277

zbMATH Keywords

bolt of lightning path

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation and superposition of functions (26B40) Approximation by arbitrary linear expressions (41A45)

Abstract: We consider the problem of the representation of real continuous functions by linear superpositions

s u m_{i = 1}^{k} g_{i} c i r c p_{i}

with continuous

g_{i}

and

p_{i}

. This problem was considered by many authors. But complete, and at the same time explicit and practical solutions to the problem was given only for the case

k = 2

. For

k > 2

, a rather practical sufficient condition for the representation can be found in Sternfeld [17] and Sproston, Strauss [16]. In this short note, we give a necessary condition of such kind for the representability of continuous functions.

Review text

Let \(X\) be a compact Hausdorff space and \(p_i:X\to {\mathbb{R}}\), \(i=1,2,\dots,k\), given continuous functions. The main result of this note is a necessary condition for the representability of real-valued continuous functions on \(X\) by \(\Sigma_{i=1}^k g_i\circ p_i\) with continuous \(g_i\). This condition is formulated in terms of paths with respect to functions \(p_1,\dots,p_k\).

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