Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Inequalities and Applications Volume 2010, Article ID 307892, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2010/307892
Research Article The Best Approximation of the Sinc Function by a Polynomial of Degree n with the Square Norm
Yuyang Qiu and Ling Zhu
College of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Yuyang Qiu, [email protected]
Received 9 April 2010; Accepted 31 August 2010
Academic Editor: Wing-Sum Cheung
Copyright q 2010 Y. Qiu and L. Zhu. 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.
The polynomial of degree n which is the best approximation of the sinc function on the interval 0, π/2 with the square norm is considered. By using Lagrange’s method of multipliers, we construct the polynomial explicitly. This method is also generalized to the continuous function on the closed interval a, b . Numerical examples are given to show the effectiveness.
1. Introduction
Let sin c x sin x /x be the sinc function; the following result is known as Jordan inequality 1 :
2 π ≤ sin c x < 1, 0