Lebesgue's lemma

For other uses, see: Lebesgue constant (disambiguation).

In mathematics, the Lebesgue constants (depending on a set of nodes and of its size) give an idea of how good the interpolant of a function (at the given nodes) is in comparison with the best polynomial approximation of the function (the degree of the polynomials are obviously fixed). The Lebesgue constant for polynomials of degree at most n and for the set of n + 1 nodes T is generally denoted by Λ_n(T). These constants are named after Henri Lebesgue.

Definition

We fix the interpolation nodes x₀, …, x_n and an interval [a, b] containing all the interpolation nodes. The process of interpolation maps the function f to a polynomial p. This defines a mapping X from the space C([a, b]) of all continuous functions on [a, b] to itself. The map X is linear and it is a projection on the subspace Π_n of polynomials of degree n or less.

The Lebesgue constant Λ_n(T) is defined as the operator norm of X. This definition requires us to specify a norm on C([a, b]). The maximum norm is usually the most convenient.

Properties

The Lebesgue constant bounds the interpolation error:

$\|f-X(f)\|\leq (\Lambda _{n}(T)+1)\|f-p^{*}\|.$

We will here prove this statement with the maximum norm. Let p^∗ denote the best approximation of f among the polynomials of degree n or less. In other words, p^∗ minimizes ||p − f|| among all p in Π_n. Then

$\|f-X(f)\|\leq \|f-p^{\ast }\|+\|p^{\ast }-X(f)\|\,\!$

by the triangle inequality. But X is a projection on Π_n, so p^∗ − X(f) =X(p^∗) − X(f) = X(p^∗−f). This finishes the proof. Note that this relation comes also as a special case of Lebesgue's lemma.

In other words, the interpolation polynomial is at most a factor Λ_n(T) + 1 worse than the best possible approximation. This suggests that we look for a set of interpolation nodes with a small Lebesgue constant.

The Lebesgue constant can be expressed in terms of the Lagrange basis polynomials:

$l_{j}(x):=\prod _{\begin{smallmatrix}i=0\\j\neq i\end{smallmatrix}}^{n}{\frac {x-x_{i}}{x_{j}-x_{i}}}$

In fact, we have the Lebesgue function

$\lambda _{n}(x)=\sum _{j=0}^{n}|l_{j}(x)|.$

and the Lebesgue constant (or Lebesgue number) for the grid is its maximum value

$\Lambda _{n}(T)=\max _{x\in [a,b]}\lambda _{n}(x)$

Nevertheless, it is not easy to find an explicit expression for Λ_n(T).

Minimal Lebesgue constants

In the case of equidistant nodes, the Lebesgue constant grows exponentially. More precisely, we have the following asymptotic estimate

$\Lambda _{n}(T)\sim {\frac {2^{n+1}}{e\,n\log n}}\quad {\mbox{as}}\quad n\to \infty .$

On the other hand, the Lebesgue constant grows only logarithmically if Chebyshev nodes are used, since we have

${\frac {2}{\pi }}\log(n+1)+a<\Lambda _{n}(T)<{\frac {2}{\pi }}\log(n+1)+1,$

where a = 0.9625….

We conclude again that Chebyshev nodes are a very good choice for polynomial interpolation. However, there is an easy (linear) transformation of Chebyshev nodes that gives a better Lebesgue constant. Let t_i denote the i^{th Chebyshev node. Then, define s_i = t_i}⁄cos(^π⁄_2(n+1)). For such nodes:

$\Lambda _{n}(S)<{\frac {2}{\pi }}\log(n+1)+b,\,$

where b = 0.7219….

Those nodes are, however, not optimal (i.e. they do not minimize the Lebesgue constants) and the search for an optimal set of nodes (which has already been proved to be unique under some assumptions) is still an intriguing topic in mathematics today. Using a computer, one can approximate the values of the minimal constants, here for the canonical interval [−1,1]:

n	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Λn(T)	1.0000	1.2500	1.4229	1.5595	1.6722	1.7681	1.8516	1.9255	1.9917

There are several sets of nodes that minimize, for fixed n, the Lebesgue constant. Though if we assume that we always take −1 and 1 as nodes for interpolation, then such a set is unique. To illustrate this property, we shall see what happens when n = 2 (i.e. we consider 3 interpolation nodes in which case the property is not trivial). One can check that each set of nodes of type (−a,0,a) is optimal when ^√8⁄₃ ≤ a ≤ 1 (we consider only nodes in [−1,1]). If we force the set of nodes to be of the type (−1,b,1), then b must equal 0 (look at the Lebesgue function, whose maximum is the Lebesgue constant).

If we assume that we take −1 and 1 as nodes for interpolation, then as shown by H.-J. Rack, for the case n = 3, the explicit values of the optimal nodes and the explicit value of the minimal Lebesgue constant are known.

The Padua points provide another set of nodes with slow growth (although not as slow as the Chebyshev nodes) and with the additional property of being a unisolvent point set.

Sensitivity of the values of a polynomial

The Lebesgue constants also arise in another problem. Let $p(x)$ be a polynomial of degree $n$ expressed in the Lagrangian form associated with the points in the vector $t$ (i.e. the vector $u$ of its coefficients is the vector containing the values $p(t_{i})$). Let ${\hat {p}}(x)$ be a polynomial obtained by slightly changing the coefficients $u$ of the original polynomial $p(x)$ to ${\hat {u}}$. Let us consider the inequality:

${\frac {\|p-{\hat {p}}\|}{\|p\|}}\leq \Lambda _{n}(T){\frac {\|u-{\hat {u}}\|}{\|u\|}}$

This means that the (relative) error in the values of ${\hat {p}}(x)$ will not be higher than the appropriate Lebesgue constant times the relative error in the coefficients. In this sense, the Lebesgue constant can be viewed as the relative condition number of the operator mapping each coefficient vector $u$ to the set of the values of the polynomial with coefficients $u$ in the Lagrange form. We can actually define such an operator for each polynomial basis but its condition number is greater than the optimal Lebesgue constant for most convenient bases.

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