Difference and Wavelet Characterizations of Distances from Functions in Lipschitz Spaces to Their Subspaces

TL;DR

This paper provides wavelet and difference-based characterizations of the distance from Lipschitz functions to their subspaces, linking geometric approximation measures to function space properties.

Contribution

It introduces a novel framework connecting Lipschitz space distances with wavelet and difference characterizations, extending to various advanced function spaces.

Findings

Characterizes distances in Lipschitz spaces via wavelet and difference methods.

Establishes equivalence between epsilon quantities and approximation distances.

Extends results to Sobolev, Besov, and Triebel–Lizorkin spaces.

Abstract

Let $\Lambda_s$ denote the Lipschitz space of order $s\in(0,\infty)$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$, which consists of all $f\in\mathfrak{C}\cap L^\infty$ such that, for some constant $L\in(0,\infty)$ and some integer $r\in(s,\infty)$, \begin{equation*} \label{0-1}\Delta_r f(x,y): =\sup_{|h|\leq y} |\Delta_h^r f(x)|\leq L y^s, \ x\in\mathbb{R}^n, \ y \in(0, 1]. \end{equation*} Here (and throughout the article) $\mathfrak{C}$ refers to continuous functions, and $\Delta_h^r$ is the usual $r$-th order difference operator with step $h\in\mathbb{R}^n$. For each $f\in \Lambda_s$ and $\varepsilon\in(0,L)$, let $ S(f,\varepsilon):= \{ (x,y)\in\mathbb{R}^n\times [0,1]: \frac {\Delta_r f(x,y)}{y^s}>\varepsilon\}$, and let $\mu: \mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}_+^{n+1})\to [0,\infty]$ be a suitably defined nonnegative extended real-valued function on the Borel $\sigma$-algebra of subsets of $\mathbb{R}_+^{n+1}$. Let $\varepsilon(f)$ be the infimum of all $\varepsilon\in(0,\infty)$ such that $\mu(S(f,\varepsilon))<\infty$. The main target of this article is to characterize the distance from $f$ to a subspace $V\cap \Lambda_s$ of $\Lambda_s$ for various function spaces $V$ (including Sobolev, Besov--Triebel--Lizorkin, and Besov--Triebel--Lizorkin-type spaces) in terms of $\varepsilon(f)$, showing that \begin{equation*} \varepsilon(f)\sim \mathrm{dist} (f, V\cap \Lambda_s)_{\Lambda_s}: = \inf_{g\in \Lambda_s\cap V} \|f-g\|_{\Lambda_s}.\end{equation*} Moreover, we present our results in a general framework based on quasi-normed lattices of function sequences $X$ and Daubechies $s$-Lipschitz $X$-based spaces.