Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Inequalities and Applications Volume 2009, Article ID 702680, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2009/702680 ResearchArticleANewEstimateontheRateofConvergenceof Durrmeyer-B ´ ezier Operators Pinghua Wang 1 and Yali Zhou 2 1 Department of Mathematics, Quanzhou Normal University, Fujian 362000, China 2 Liming University, Quanzhou, Fujian 362000, China Correspondence should be addressed to Pinghua Wang, xxc570@163.com Received 20 February 2009; Accepted 13 April 2009 Recommended by Vijay Gupta We obtain an estimateontherateofconvergenceof Durrmeyer-B ´ ezier operaters for functions of bounded variation by means of some probabilistic methods and inequality techniques. Our estimate improves the result of Zeng and Chen 2000. Copyright q 2009 P. Wang and Y. Zhou. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introdution In 2000, Zeng and Chen 1 introduced the Durrmeyer-B ´ ezier operators D n,α which are defined as follows: D n,α f, x n 1 n k0 Q α nk x 1 0 f t p nk t dt, 1.1 where f is defined on 0, 1, α ≥ 1, Q α nk xJ α nk x − J α n,k1 x, J nk x n jk p nj x, k 0, 1, 2, ,n are B ´ ezier basis functions, and p nk xn!/k!n − k!x k 1 − x n−k , k 0, 1, 2, ,nare Bernstein basis functions. When α 1, D n,1 f is just the well-known Durrmeyer operator D n,1 f, x n 1 n k0 p nk x 1 0 f t p nk t dt. 1.2 Concerning the approximation properties of operators D n,1 f and some results on approximation of functions of bounded variation by positive linear operators, one can refer 2 Journal of Inequalities and Applications to 2–7. Authors of 1 studied therateofconvergenceof t he operators D n,α f for functions of bounded variation and presented the following important result. Theorem A. Let f be a function of bounded variation on 0, 1,(f ∈ BV0, 1), α ≥ 1, then for every x ∈ 0, 1 and n ≥ 1/x1 − xone has D n,α f, x − 1 α 1 f x α α 1 f x− ≤ 8α nx 1 − x n k1 x1−x/ √ k x−x/ √ k g x 2α nx 1 − x f x − f x− , 1.3 where b a g x is the total variation of g x on a, b and g x t ⎧ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎩ f t − f x ,x<t≤ 1, 0,t x, f t − f x− , 0 ≤ t<x. 1.4 Since the D urrmeyer-B ´ ezier operators D n,α are an important approximation operator ofnew type, the purpose of this paper is to continue studying the approximation properties ofthe operators D n,α for functions of bounded variation, and give a better estimate than that of Theorem A by means of some probabilistic methods and inequality techniques. The result of this paper is as follows. Theorem 1.1. Let f be a function of bounded variation on 0, 1,(f ∈ BV0, 1), α ≥ 1, then for every x ∈ 0, 1 and n>1 one has D n,α f, x − 1 α 1 f x α α 1 f x− ≤ 4α 1 nx 1 − x n k1 x1−x/ √ k x−x/ √ k g x α n 1 x 1 − x f x − f x− , 1.5 where g x t is defined in 1.4. It is obvious that theestimate 1.5 is better than theestimate 1.3. More important, theestimate 1.5 is true for all n>1. This is an important improvement comparing with the fact that estimate 1.3 holds only for n ≥ 1/x1 − x. 2. Some Lemmas In order to prove Theorem 1.1, we need the following preliminary results. Lemma 2.1. Let {ξ k } ∞ k1 be a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables, ξ 1 is a random variable with two-point distribution P ξ 1 ix i 1−x 1−i (i 0, 1, and x ∈ 0, 1 is Journal of Inequalities and Applications 3 a parameter). Set η n n k1 ξ k , with the mathematical e xpectation Eη n μ n ∈ −∞, ∞, and with the variance Dη n σ 2 n > 0. Then for k 1, 2, ,n 1,one has P η n ≤ k − 1 − P η n1 ≤ k ≤ σ n1 μ n1 , 2.1 P η n ≤ k − P η n1 ≤ k ≤ σ n1 n 1 − μ n1 . 2.2 Proof. Since η n n k1 ξ k , from the distribution series of ξ k , by convolution computation we get P η n j n! j! n − j ! x j 1 − x n−j , 0 ≤ j ≤ n. 2.3 Furthermore by direct computations we have μ n1 n 1 x, P η n j −1 j n 1 x P η n1 j , 1 ≤ j ≤ n 1. 2.4 Thus we deduce that P η n ≤ k − 1 − P η n1 ≤ k k j1 P η n j −1 − k j1 P η n1 j − P η n1 0 k j0 j n 1 x − 1 P η n1 j ≤ 1 n 1 x k j0 j − n 1 x P η n1 j ≤ 1 n 1 x n1 j0 j − n 1 x P η n1 j ≤ 1 μ n1 E η n1 − μ n1 . 2.5 By Schwarz’s inequality, it follows that 1 μ n1 E η n1 − μ n1 ≤ E η n1 − μ n1 2 μ n1 σ n1 μ n1 . 2.6 The inequality 2.1 is proved. 4 Journal of Inequalities and Applications Similarly, by using the identities n 1 − μ n1 n 1 1 − x , P η n j n 1 − j n 1 1 − x P η n1 j , 1 ≤ j ≤ n 1, 2.7 we get the inequality 2.2. Lemma 2.1 is proved. Lemma 2.2. Let α ≥ 1,k 0, 1, 2, ,n, p nk xn!/k!n −k!x k 1 − x n−k be Bernstein basis functions, and let J nk x n jk p nj x be B ´ ezier basis functions, then one has J α nk x − J α n1,k1 x ≤ α n 1 x 1 − x , J α nk x − J α n1,k x ≤ α n 1 x 1 − x . 2.8 Proof. Note that 0 ≤ J nk x,J n1,k1 x ≤ 1,μ n1 n 1x, σ 2 n1 n 1x1 − x,andα ≥ 1. Thus J α nk x − J α n1,k1 x ≤ α | J nk x − J n1,k1 x | α n jk p nj − n1 jk1 p n1,j α ⎛ ⎝ 1 − n jk p nj ⎞ ⎠ − ⎛ ⎝ 1 − n1 jk1 p n1,j ⎞ ⎠ α P η n ≤ k − 1 − P η n1 ≤ k . 2.9 Now by inequality 2.1 of Lemma 2.1 we obtain J α nk x − J α n1,k1 x ≤ α 1 − x n 1 x 1 − x ≤ α n 1 x 1 − x . 2.10 Similarly, by using inequality 2.2,weobtain J α nk x − J α n1,k x ≤ α x n 1 x 1 − x ≤ α n 1 x 1 − x . 2.11 Thus Lemma 2.2 is proved. Journal of Inequalities and Applications 5 3. Proof of Theorem 1.1 Let f satisfy the conditions of Theorem 1.1, then f can be decomposed as f t 1 α 1 f x α α 1 f x− g x t f x − f x− 2 sgn t − x α − 1 α 1 δ x t f x − 1 2 f x − 1 2 f x− , 3.1 where sgn t ⎧ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎩ 1,t>0 0,t 0, −1,t<0, δ x t ⎧ ⎨ ⎩ 0,t / x, 1,t x. 3.2 Obviously D n,α δ x ,x0, thus from 3.1 we get D n,α f, x − 1 α 1 f x α α 1 f x− ≤ D n,α g x, ,x f x − f x− 2 D n,α sgn t − x ,x α − 1 α 1 . 3.3 We first estimate |D n,α sgnt −x,xα−1/α 1|,from1, page 11 we have the following equation: D n,α sgn t − x ,x α − 1 α 1 2 n1 k0 p n1,k x J α nk x − 2 n1 k0 p n1,k x γ α nk x , 3.4 where J α n1,k1 x <γ α nk x <J α n1,k x. Thus by Lemma 2.2,weget|J α nk x − γ α nk x|≤α/ n 1x1 − x.Notethat n1 k0 p n1,k x1, we have D n,α sgn t − x ,x α − 1 α 1 2 n1 k0 p n1,k x J α nk x − γ α nk x ≤ 2α n 1 x 1 − x . 3.5 Next we estimate |D n,α g x ,x|.From15 of 1, it follows the inequality D n,α g x ,x ≤ 4α nx 1 − x 1 n 2 x 2 1 − x 2 n k1 x1−x/ √ k x−x/ √ k g x . 3.6 6 Journal of Inequalities and Applications That is, n 2 x 2 1 − x 2 D n,α g x ,x ≤ 4α nx 1 − x 1 n k1 x 1−x / √ k x−x/ √ k g x . 3.7 Onthe other hand, note that g x x0, we have D n,α g x ,x ≤ D n,α g x t − g x x ,x ≤ 1 0 g x D n,α 1,x 1 0 g x ≤ n k1 x 1−x / √ k x−x/ √ k g x . 3.8 From 3.7 and 3.8 we obtain D n,α g x ,x ≤ 4αnx 1 − x 4α 4α n 2 x 2 1 − x 2 4α n k1 x1−x/ √ k x−x/ √ k g x . 3.9 Using inequality n 2 x 2 1 − x 2 16α 2 4α>8αnx 1 − x , 3.10 we get 4αnx 1 − x 4α 4α n 2 x 2 1 − x 2 4α < 4α 1 nx 1 − x , ∀n>1. 3.11 Thus from 3.9 we obtain D n,α g x ,x ≤ 4α 1 nx 1 − x n k1 x1−x/ √ k x−x/ √ k g x . 3.12 Theorem 1.1 now follows by collecting the estimations 3.3, 3.5,and3.12. 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