Best Polynomial Approximation on the Unit Sphere and the Unit Ball
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This is a survey on best polynomial approximation on the unit sphere and the unit ball. The central problem is to describe the approximation behavior of a function by polynomials via smoothness of the function. A major effort is to identify a correct gadget that characterizes smoothness of functions, either a modulus of smoothness or a Kfunctional, the two of which are often equivalent. We will concentrate on characterization of best approximations, given in terms of direct and converse theorems, and report several moduli of smoothness and K-functionals, including recent results that give a fairly satisfactory characterization of best approximation by polynomials for functions in L spaces, the space of continuous functions, and Sobolev spaces.
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