In this paper, a generalization of a result on the uniform best approximation of α cos nx + β sin nx by trigonometric polynomials of degree less than n is considered and its relationship with a well-known polynomial inequality of C. Visser is indicated.
It is shown that Jackson type inequality fails in the Orlicz classes φ(L) if φ(x) differs essentially from a power function of any order.
* The author was supported by NSF Grant No. DMS 9706883.Let P be a bi-variate algebraic polynomial of degree n with the real senior part, and Y = {yj }1,n an n-element collection of pairwise noncolinear unit vectors on the real plane. It is proved that there exists a rigid rotation Y^φ of Y by an angle φ = φ(P, Y ) ∈ [0, π/n] such that P equals the sum of n plane wave polynomials, that propagate in the directions ∈ Y^φ .
Considering the class of almost periodic functions integrable in the Stepanov sense we extend and generalize certain results of the first author, as well as of L. Leindler and P. Chandra.