We discuss the best approximation of periodic functions by trigonometric polynomials and the approximation by Fourier partial summation operators, Valle-Poussin operators, Ces`aro operators, Abel opera-tors, and Jackson operators, respectively, on the Sobolev space with a Gaussian measure and obtain the average error estimations. We show that, in the average case setting, the trigonometric polynomial subspaces are the asymptotically optimal subspaces in the L q space for 1≤q < ∞, and the Fourier partial summation operators and the Valle-Poussin operators are the asymptotically optimal linear operators and are as good as optimal nonlinear operators in the L q space for 1≤q < ∞.
WANG HePing 1, ZHANG YanWei 2 & ZHAI XueBo 1 1 School of Mathematical Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
