Sharp Estimates for Mean Square Approximations of Classes of Differentiable Periodic Functions by Shift Spaces

Let L2 be the space of 2π-periodic square-summable functions and E(f, X)2 be the best approximation of f by the space X in L2. For n ∈ ℕ and B ∈ L2, let $${{\Bbb S}_{B,n}}$$ be the space of functions s of the form $$s\left( x \right) = \sum\limits_{j = 0}^{2n - 1} {{\beta _j}B\left( {x - \frac{{j\pi }}{n}} \right)} $$ . This paper describes all spaces $${{\Bbb S}_{B,n}}$$ that satisfy the exact inequality $$E{\left( {f,{S_{B,n}}} \right)_2} \leqslant \frac{1}{{^{{n^r}}}}\parallel {f^{\left( r \right)}}{\parallel _2}$$ . (2n–1)-dimensional subspaces fulfilling the same estimate are specified. Well-known inequalities are for approximation by trigonometric polynomials and splines obtained as special cases.