An Lp Saturation Theorem for Splines

Abstract

Let 1 be a subdivision of [0, 1], and let denote the class of functions whose restriction to each sub-interval is a polynomial of degree at most k. Gaier [1] has shown that for uniform subdivisions △n (that is, subdivisions for which if and only if f is a polynomial of degree at most k. Here, and subsequently, denotes the usual norm in Lp[0, 1], 1 ≦ p ≦ ∞, and we should emphasize that functions differing only on a set of Lebesgue measure zero are identified.