Paper 2, Section II, H

Topics in Analysis | Part II, 2016

Prove Bernstein's theorem, which states that if f:[0,1]→Rf:[0,1] \rightarrow \mathbb{R} is continuous and

fm(t)=∑r=0m(mr)f(r/m)tr(1−t)m−rf_{m}(t)=\sum_{r=0}^{m}\left(\begin{array}{c} m \\ r \end{array}\right) f(r / m) t^{r}(1-t)^{m-r}

then fm(t)→f(t)f_{m}(t) \rightarrow f(t) uniformly on [0,1][0,1]. [Theorems from probability theory may be used without proof provided they are clearly stated.]

Deduce Weierstrass's theorem on polynomial approximation for any closed interval.

Proving any results on Chebyshev polynomials that you need, show that, if g:[0,π]→Rg:[0, \pi] \rightarrow \mathbb{R} is continuous and ϵ>0\epsilon>0, then we can find an N⩾0N \geqslant 0 and aj∈Ra_{j} \in \mathbb{R}, for 0⩽j⩽N0 \leqslant j \leqslant N, such that

∣g(t)−∑j=0Najcos⁡jt∣⩽ϵ\left|g(t)-\sum_{j=0}^{N} a_{j} \cos j t\right| \leqslant \epsilon

for all t∈[0,π]t \in[0, \pi]. Deduce that ∫0πg(t)cos⁡ntdt→0\int_{0}^{\pi} g(t) \cos n t d t \rightarrow 0 as n→∞n \rightarrow \infty.

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