The most significant problem in approximation theory and Fourier analysis is the study of relationships between the “smoothness” of a function and the possibility to approximate or to represent it by a combination of “simple” functions (e.g. polynomials, rational functions, splines and others). This conception plays an increasingly important role in mathematics as well as in many branches of applied sciences and engineering.
The classical approximation theory is devoted to problems of approximation of functions which are continuous or at least integrable. Therefore, the scale of the spaces Lp with 1≤p≤∞, Fourier series, convolution operators and linear continuous functionals have traditionally been used for measuring the errors of approximation and the smoothness of functions.
In recent decades, it has appeared a need to expand the classical approximation theory to the spaces Lp, 0
In light of this, the goal of the research in the project AFFMA was to study a series of open problems related to the approximation and smoothness in Lp, 0
1. Simultaneous approximation of functions and their derivatives. The main objectives of this part of the project were the following: to investigate classes of functions and different methods of approximation for which the problem of simultaneous approximation in Lp, 0
2. New inequalities for moduli of smoothness. The first objective of this part was to obtain new inequalities for moduli of smoothness of functions and their derivatives, namely the direct inequalities (upper estimates of the modulus of smoothness of a function via the modulus of smoothness of the derivatives of this function) and the corresponding inverse inequalities in the spaces Lp for 0
3. Fourier multipliers and families of multiplier operators. The objective of this part of the project was to obtain sufficient conditions of the boundedness for Fourier multipliers and families of multiplier operators in terms of the simultaneous behaviour of a function and its derivatives in different weighted function classes.