Let B be a Banach space and (H, ‖ · ‖H) be a dense, imbedded subspace. For a ∈ B, its distance to the ball of H with radius R (denoted as I(a, R)) tends to zero when R tends to infinity. We are interested in the rate of this convergence. This approximation problem arose from the study of learning theory, where B is the L2 space and H is a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. The class of elements ...