1. Introduction
In approximation theory, rational approximation to
plays an important role. The approximation to non-smooth functions
began with Bernstein’s polynomial approximation [1]. In 1964, Newman [2] constructed rational functions
and approximated
, with the constructed node set
and the correspondingly rational function to set X. It was found that the approximation effect is much better than polynomial approximation.
After that, scholars have studied the convergence rate of
by operators based on different node groups. In 1997, Brutman and Passow [3] considered the zeros of Chebyshev polynomial
in interval
, namely,
, or
(1)
and investigated the rational interpolation problem of
. The order of approximation was
.
In 2010, Huiming Zhang [4] constructed Newman-α type rational operators and the zeros of the second kind of Chebyshev polynomials
in interval
were considered on the rational interpolation of
,
, namely,
. The order of approximation was
.
In reference [5], a new set of interpolating nodes was constructed, and the Newman type rational interpolation operator was used to approximate the function
, and the order of approximation was
, where
. In reference [6], the rational operator pairs on a group of encrypted Newman nodes
approximated
, and the order of approximation was
.
The approximation
of different operators based on different nodes has a wide past. Among these node groups, the zeros of polynomials and exponential type nodes have been considered. It is natural to ask how do the logarithmic nodes perform in the approximation problem.
In this paper, we focus on the convergence rate of
at logarithmic nodes
. We prove that, with the node group X, the convergence rate of approximation is
. Furthermore, if the operator is constructed based on further subdivision nodes, the convergence rate is improved to
. This result reveals the essential to some extent: the more dense the nodes near zero, the better rate of convergence, which also explains the results in some former research, see for example, reference [3].
The Newman type rational operator is constructed in this paper. The Newman type rational operator is defined as
(2)
and
.
2. Auxiliarily Lemmas
To verify the desired result, we shall need the following auxiliary results.
Lemma 1. For
, the inequality
holds true.
Proof. Notice that the function
is monotonically increasing for
. Then,
is the minimum value and
. It is easy to observe that
(3)
Lemma 2. For
, the inequality
holds true.
Proof. Write
. Take the derivative of
, we have
(4)
The function
is monotonically increasing for
. So the inequality
holds true for
.
Lemma 3. [7] For
, the inequality
holds true.
Lemma 4. For
, the inequality
holds true.
Proof. Take the derivative of
, we obtain
(5)
The function
is monotonically increasing for
and
. Thus the inequality
holds true for
.
Similarly, for function
, the inequality
holds true when
.
Lemma 5. [8] For
, the inequality
holds true.
3. Main Results and Proofs
Theorem 1. Based on a node group
, we have
(6)
Proof of Theorem 1. Since
and
are even function, we only need to consider the approximation on the interval
. The proof will be divided into the following cases.
Case 1.
. Considering
(7)
and
(8)
Then, we see
(9)
Therefore,
it is clear that the function achieves its maximum value in the interval
at
.
Case 2.
. We can see
Applying the lemma 1,
Therefore,
Case 3.
. Noting that
Thus we have
Combining three cases completes the proof of Theorem 1.
Theorem 2. Considering
, we have
(10)
Proof. let
, we can see that
Applying Lemma 3,
where
Then we obtain,
(11)
This shows that the approximation order in Theorem 1 cannot be improved.
It is noticed that the density near zero is closely related to the approximation order. If the node near the zero point is further subdivided, the following theorem can be obtained.
Theorem 3. Considering inserting n-degree nodes into the interval
, which is
. The order of approximation on the interval
is
for
.
Proof. Taking interval
as an example. Considering
we can see
Direct computation together with (9) result in
The proof on other intervals can refer to theorem 1.
4. Conclusions
In this paper, based on the node group
, we use Newman type rational operators to approximate |x|, and derive the approximation order
. When
is discussed on the interval
, the approximation effect is the worst, which is
; on the interval
, the approximation effect is better, which is
; on the interval
, the approximation effect is the best, it is
.
Considering that the higher the density of the node near zero, the better the approximation effect is, we further insert the nodes of degree n to make the approximation order reach
. This result is better than
on equidistant nodes ( [9] ), Chebyshev nodes of the first kind ( [3] ) and Chebyshev nodes of the second kind ( [4] ).
Acknowledgements
The work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China under grant number 11601110 and China Scholarship Council.