Abstract

Using the modulus of smoothness, directional derivatives of multivariate Bernstein operators with weights are characterized. The obtained results partly generalize the corresponding ones for multivariate Bernstein operators without weights.

1. Introduction

For the simplex in ,

we denote the space of continuous functions on equipped with the norm Let , for each (), the multivariate Bernstein polynomial of is defined by where with nonnegative integers , and

with the convention

Obviously, the multivariate Bernstein operators given in (1.3) can be reduced as the classical Bernstein polynomials in case , that is,

Here introduce the crucial notations of our investigation. First, with the simplex , we denote the set of unit vectors in the directions of the edges of where and are considered to be the same vectors. That is, and . With a direction and a point , we define the step-weight function

where is the Euclidean distance between and in . Obviously, as , the can further be expressed as:It is clear that can be reduced as the classical Bernstein polynomials’ step-weight function in case .

The multivariate Jacobi weight function in this paper is denoted as follows:

where , ,  .

The rth symmetric difference of function with the direction is given by

Using the above notation, the weighted Sobolev space in is then defined by where is the inner of .

Furthermore, the weighted -functional is defined by

and the weighted modulus is

where is the weighted form. From [1], there exists a positive constant ,

Throughout the paper, the letter , appearing in various formulas, denotes a positive constant independent of , , and . Its value may be different at different occurrences, even within the same formula.

The close connection between the derivatives of Bernstein-type operators and the smoothness of functions has been well investigated by Ditzian, Totik, Ivanov and some other mathematicians (see [26], etc.) In [2], Ditzian has studied the relations between the derivatives of classical Bernstein operators and the smoothness of the function . In [7], we have presented the relation between the derivatives of classical Bernstein operators and the smoothness of function with Jacobi weights. Zhou has considered the approximation problems of higher-dimensional Bernstein operators with Jacobi weights, and has pointed out the unboundedness of Bernstein operators with Jacobi weights in the usual norm [8]. Because of the unboundedness of operators with weights in , he used the method of space reduction, that is,

has been taken instead of ( is the boundary of ). He then has shown the characteristic of the two dimensional Bernstein operators with Jacobi weights. In [1], Cao has yielded the order of approximation of d-dimensional Bernstein Operators with Jacobi weights by using the equivalence relation (1.14). In [6], Cao has evaluated extensively derivatives of the multivariate Bernstein operators on a simplex, and he proved the following.

Theorem 1.1. Let,,, and suppose then

In this paper, we study the characterization of derivatives of multivariate Bernstein polynomials with Jacobi weights by using the measure of smoothness in the space . The main result is expressed as follows.

Theorem 1.2. Let , , , and , and suppose , one has

Remark 1.3. Theorem 1.2 shows that the characterization of derivatives for multivariate bernstein operators with jacobi weight by using the measure of smoothness . conversely, we conjecture that the inverse theorem is also correct, that is, The above equivalent relation without Jacobi weight has been proved in [6] when . In fact, the proof of Theorem 1.2 shows that the direct part holds true, we leave the inverse part as an open problem.

2. Lemmas

To prove Theorem 1.2, some lemmas will be shown in this section.

Lemma 2.1. Consider the following;

Proof. When , one has Consider different conditions,(1) if , (2) if let, By the same methods can also be given.
Suppose the lemma is correct when . We prove the lemma is also correct when . Through a simple computation, the following results can be easily obtained where ,

Lemma 2.2. Let, , then

Proof. First, we recall the discussion of theorem 4.1 of [9] that will allow us to consider lemma 1 with . it is clear that if , we may just rename the coordinates. the following transformation will help us to complete the other case of . the transformation is defined by [9] where ; and is the identity operator.
Obviously, where and . So, for , , we have Secondly, we prove In The following we use mathematical induction on the dimension number to prove (2.12). When , Lemma 3.2 in [10] proved the above inequality for , for , from the expression of derivatives of Bernstein operator in [4] (page125,(9.4.3)), we can easily prove it. Next, suppose that (2.12) is valid for (); we prove (2.12) is also true for . Assume
Let . can therefore be rewritten as and can be decomposed as where . Using the inductive assumption, we have Here, the equality and the inequality have been used in the proof of (2.16). The proof of Lemma 2.2 is complete.

Lemma 2.3. Let , then

Proof. By (2.10), for , , we have Similar to the discussion in the proof of Lemma 2.2., we need only to prove the case of , that is,
The steps to prove (2.21) are similar to those to prove the inequality (2.12). Hence, the proof of Lemma 2.3 is complete

3. Proof of Theorem

We will prove Theorem 1.2 in the followings. For and for all , it follows from Lemmas 2.2 and 2.3 that

From the definition of -functional and (1.14), we obtain

Similarly, the case of , can also be proved. If , it is not difficult to obtain by assuming . The proof of Theorem 1.2 is complete.

Acknowledgment

This paper was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (nos. 11001227, 11171275, 60972155, and 61105041), Natural Science Foundation Project of Chongqing (nos. CSTC, 2009BB2306, CSTC, 2009BB2305), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (nos. XDJK2010B005 and XDJK2010C023).