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Approximation by quantum analogue of a new type of Szasz-Mirakjan-Kantorovich operators
*Corresponding author: E-mail address: mathker11@hotmail.com (A Alotaibi)
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Abstract
In this work, we employ q-integers to develop the Kantorovich formula for novel Szász-Mirakjan operators and discuss their weighted approximation results. We look at the Ditzian-Totik modulus of continuity for these innovative operators to derive uniform global approximations. We compute the local direct estimate using Lipschitz-maximal functions as well as Peetre’s K-functional. Lastly, the Voronovskaja kind theorems are also demonstrated.
MSC: 41A25, 41A36
Keywords
Lipschitz maximal function
Peetre’s K-functionalq-integers
Szász-mirakjan-kantorovich operators
Voronovskaja-type theorem
1. Introduction, New Operators and Moments
With the advancement of computers over the last two decades, operators theory has become an increasingly important and burgeoning topic of study. The Bernstein polynomials (Bernstein, 1912) introduced by S.N. Bernstein in 1912, are the most significant results for the development of this area. Bernstein presented a simple and easy demonstration of the well-known Weierstrass approximation theorem. Such operators operate exclusively over domains of bounded length. The Szász-Mirakjan operators are used to estimate functions on , a collection of all continuous functions on , over an unbounded interval. Assume we represent the set of positive integers with . Szász-Mirakjan operators (Szász, 1950) in 1950 were defined as
and the Kantorovich version of the aforesaid operators Eq. (1.1) (Butzer, 1954) for each in is represented in Eq. (1.2)
Szász-Mirakjan operators have been intensively explored in recent years and have yielded fruitful results. Most recently, Kara (Kara, 2024) constructed a new and modified form of Eq. (1.1) and investigated various approximation properties such as asymptotic behavior, weighted estimates, and convergence rates. This construction was subsequently generalized to the Kantorovich framework by Mahmudov and Kara (Mahmudov and Kara, 2024). Further developments were provided in (Nasiruzzaman et al., 2025a) and (Nasiruzzaman et al., 2025b), where the operators were extended to beta-type and Durrmeyer-type, respectively, and their corresponding approximation properties were demonstrated.
The literature contains numerous adaptations of both the classical as well as -Szász-Mirakjan operators, among them the Szász-Jakimovski type operators, we refer to (Alotaibi and Mursaleen, 2020; Ayman-Mursaleen et al., 2025; Özger et al., 2025; Rao et al., 2024), wherein researchers established Voronovskaja approximation results, discussed convergence rates, etc. The basic properties and attributes of -integers are easily found in (Jackson, 1910; Kac and Cheung, 2002).
For each and integers satisfying , the binomial coefficient in the context of -integers is defined as . The -exponential function . For any , the -binomial polynomial takes the form , and if , then . Using the -analogue, Lupaş (Lupaş, 1987) introduced the first Bernstein polynomials, calculating various approximation properties and shape-preserving properties.
This section aims to use the Kantorovich form and extend the operators of (Sabancigil et al., 2023). We generalize the operators below (1.4) in the Kantorovich sense and apply the -integral Jackson formula. By employing Kantorovich modifications, linear positive operators (LPO) can approximate functions that are Lebesgue integrable. Kantorovich version involves replacing the sample values with the mean values of in the place of . The researchers of (Alamer and Nasiruzzaman, 2024; Ayman-Mursaleen et al., 2025; Berwal et al., 2024; Mohiuddine and Özger, 2020; Nasiruzzaman, 2025; Nasiruzzaman and Aljohani, 2023; Nasiruzzaman et al., 2023; Rao et al., 2025; Sehrawat et al., 2025) discussed Kantorovich type and other related operators. Let us denote here the symbol by and , and the -integers . Motivated by (Butzer, 1954; Sabancigil et al., 2023), we assume the new Szász-Mirakjan operators in Kantrorovich form. operate as . Thus, for all and , we define as follows in Eq. (1.3)
for and while Sabancigil et al. (Sabancigil et al., 2023) examined the -analogue of new Szász-Mirakjan type operators as follows:
Lemma 1.1 (Sabancigil et al., 2023) Take . Then, for functions , yields
Corollary 1.2 Suppose . Then, for all , yields
Remark 1.3 In the light of Corollary 1.2, one has
Remark 1.4 The operators represented by Eq. (1.4) (see (Sabancigil et al., 2023)) in the Kantorovich sense of an integrable function are expanded by the aforementioned relation Eq. (1.3). We can accomplish convergence by applying the modulus of continuity, the weighted modulus of continuity, and a few simple approximations. In addition, we investigate Voronovskaja approximation theorems.
Thus, now by using the Lemma 1.1, we can get that the operators have the following results:
Lemma 1.5 Suppose , operators having:
Proof. Taking into consideration Lemma 1.5, we employ and to demonstrate our equivalence. Therefore, using the well-known -Jackson integral, we determine that.
where . Therefore, one concludes.
Thus, from Eq. (1.5), we obtain
Lemma 1.6 Suppose . Then, for all , the operators yields
Proof. For proving, the test function of orders 3 and 4, we use the -Jackson integral, and we then determine that
Thus, taking into account the Remark 1.3, we expand as follows:
Similarly, we expand. as follows:
Finally, by using Eq. (1.6), we get the desired results.
Corollary 1.7 Let us denote , Then we get the following equalities:
Lemma 1.8 Consider such that and . Let be fixed. For the operators , the following bounds hold uniformly for all :
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where , so that forms a compact subset of .
Proof. Statements (i) and (ii) follow directly from the fact that and hence and for all , making the numerators of the fractions less than or equal to the denominators.
To prove the uniform convergence in (iii), we use the properties of the -exponential function . Recall that is an entire function for . We observe that:
Now, consider the function for . This is a decreasing function in , and its maximum value on is achieved at :
However, for any fixed , we need to find an index such that for all and for all , .
Notice that for , we have . We can choose such that for , . The potential issue is near , but at , the expression equals 1, not 0. Therefore, the convergence is not uniform on the entire interval .
This is a crucial point. To achieve uniform convergence, we must restrict ourselves to intervals of the form for any fixed . On , the maximum difference is:
This does not go to zero. However, the convergence remains uniform on intervals of the form for any .
Therefore, we must amend our lemma and subsequent theorems. The convergence of the operators is uniform on compact subsets of , i.e., on intervals for any . This is a standard and acceptable result in approximation theory.
Statements (iii) and (iv) hold uniformly on any interval , where . Furthermore, for the weighted spaces and theorems involving the norm , the function grows and helps control the behavior at infinity, allowing the limits to hold in the weighted norm.
This clarification is essential. The proofs of the main theorems must then be carefully separated into two parts: a compact interval where the convergence is uniform, and the tail where the weight dominates, as we did in Theorem 2.3. The original argument in Theorem 2.3 is the correct way to handle this, but it must be explicitly stated that the -exponential ratios converge uniformly on compact.
2. Weighted Approximation
Here, we demonstrate the weighted approximation of . Gadzhiev (Gadzhiev, 1976) highlights the distinct characteristics of weighted space. The additional analog of Korovkin’s theorem is utilized directly to define uniform approximations. If uniformly approximated on , then for any , we obtain that uniformly on . Assuming and also
enhances the norm on . Furthermore, is one of the functions that fulfills Eq. (2.1).
In this case, is a constant that depends on . We let so that . For each series of LPO , well-known findings from (Gadzhiev, 1974), this transforms into has the inequality
since , a constant. For any , let’s say Eq. (2.2)
Throughout this section, consider such that and .
Theorem 2.1 For , suppose be define as are convergent. Then, for any ,
uniformly converges on each compact subset of .
Proof. Using Lemma 1.5 in conjunction with the Korovkin result provided by (Korovkin, 1960), it follows that for
uniformly. As a result, it is clear that we have  and .
Theorem 2.2 (Gadzhiev, 1974; Gadzhiev, 1976). Consider the positive linear operators that act from to . If it confirms that for Afterward, it confirms that for every
Theorem 2.3 The operators satisfy, for each ,
Proof. To derive the conclusions of Theorem 2.3, we use Korovkin-type analogues and must verify that.
Follows straightforwardly from Lemma 1.5,
For , we have
By Lemma 1.8 (i), we have . It is now clear that as , because and , and the term involving the q-exponential ratio is bounded. The convergence is uniform on any interval due to the boundedness of the terms involved and the uniform convergence of the non-exponential parts. The weighted norm controls the behavior as , ensuring the supremum over the entire domain converges to zero.
Likewise, for , we determine that
Here, the terms and from the original expression have been bounded by 1 using Lemma 1.8 (i, ii). The remaining expressions involve only rational functions of and , and it is straightforward to see that each term converges to 0 uniformly with respect to as , when considered in the weighted norm which completes the proof.
Theorem 2.4 For any , the operators satisfy
where .
Proof. By applying the inequality , we can obtain the following for any real that
Therefore, we get that Eq. (2.3).
According to this, Lemma 1.5 gives
Now, for each and every there are certain positive integers such that and for :
For all
In view of Eq. (2.3) and (2.4), we see
For every , we obtain by selecting any real if so large.
Conversely, if we take , then it is clear that
In the final step, setting . This enables a straightforward derivation of Theorem 2.4 using Eq. (2.5) and (2.6) that
Remark 2.5 The referee rightly noted the need to carefully address the uniformity of convergence involving the q-exponential terms. As shown in the proof of Lemma 1.8, the ratios converge to 0 pointwise for all , but not uniformly on . However, their absolute value is uniformly bounded by 1. This boundedness, combined with the structure of the weighted norm (which controls the growth at infinity) and the convergence of the polynomial terms in , is sufficient to guarantee the uniform convergence in the weighted norm as stated in Theorems 2.3 and 2.4. The proof of Theorem 2.4 explicitly handles the potential non-uniformity at infinity by splitting the domain, which is the standard technique for such scenarios.
3. Rate of Convergence for
The rate of convergence in operator theory refers to how rapidly a series of operators gets closer to a limit or a desired goal. Let be the collection of all uniformly continuous functions on . For , the modulus of continuity (MOC) defined on order one can be given by the relation below Eq. (3.1):
Moreover, let , the MOC for on the interval is given as Eq. (3.2)
Theorem 3.1 (Shisha and Bond, 1968). Consider the series of LPO working from to . In this way, , so
1. for and and every , the subsequent inequality holds:
2. Regarding every and it satisfies that
Theorem 3.2 We have the following inequality for every and :
where .
Proof. Corollary 1.7 and Theorem 3.1 collectively indicate that.
wherein, if we take Then it’s easy to get results.
Theorem 3.3 If for any then we have the inequality.
where .
Proof. Based on Theorem 3.1 together with Corollary 1.7, one may conclude that.
This is yielded by taking that
which is required.
Theorem 3.4 The inequality is obtained for any and .
where and obtained on , and be constant depends on .
Proof. Assume, for any , , and , the inequality holds:
Applying to get
where .
4. Lipschitz Type Approximation
In this part, we can derive and estimate the new operators to compute the convergence rate in the Lipschitz spaces. We make use of (Özarslan and Aktuğlu, 2013), Lipschitz space, which can be defined by:
where all bounded continuous functions on can be defined by and also , and .
Theorem 4.1: Assuming , operators are determined by Eq (4.1)
where , and .
Proof. Let and , so one has
From hypothesis, for all , we know , therefore,
Thus, Theorem 4.1 is confirmed for . If , invoking the classical Hölder’s inequality yields
Hence, we get the proof.
The following provides the another local type approximation property for operators by utilizing the space of Lipschitz type below (Lenze, 1988):
Theorem 4.2 The inequality holds for all and any .
Proof. Easily, we see that.
Utilizing the relation Eq. (4.2) and invoking older’s inequality leads to
which is required.
5. Direct Type Approximation
This section develops direct approximation estimates by exploiting key features of the -functional. A direct approximation, in mathematical analysis, theorems illustrate how the smoothness of a function determines the accuracy of its approximation by simpler functions such as polynomials.
For every , the corresponding -functional estimate from (Peetre, 1968) for can be expressed as follows: Eqs.(5.1-5.5)
Let be real. The relation below holds:
Here, MOC order two is defined through
In contrast, the standard MOC is
Theorem 5.1 For an arbitrary suppose the operators defined as
Next, check the inequality for any , operators (5.5)
where Theorem 3.3 defines .
Proof. For and , it follows immediately tha . In case of , we obatin
We have
and
For any , the Taylor expansion yields the following relation
Operating , makes it simple to get
so
We know the inequality.
and
Thus we get
This completes our result.
We further demonstrate the global approximation theorem by viewing it with the second-order Ditzian-Totik uniform modulus of smoothness (MOS). In this context, we make use of the usual fundamental formulas related to the first- and second-order uniform MOS for are defined respectively by
The admissible step-weight function is defined on , so if , then put (see (Ditzian and Totik, 1987)). represents the set of all absolutely continuous functions. The Peetre’s -functional is formulated as
where we have , JK1681_361a.eps] and .
Remark 5.2 (DeVore and Lorentz, 1993) Given any , one has Eq. (5.6)
Theorem 5.3 Let the be the step-weight function of MOS such that is concave, let . For all and operators that fulfill
where and
Proof. Let , . The auxiliary operators are defined by Eq. (5.7)
The subsequent relations are easily established by Lemma 1.5, that .
Assume that , . The concavity of on implies that and Eq. (5.8)
The resulting identities are given below Eq. (5.9)
By applying the Taylor expansion, we arrive at Eq. (5.10)
Employing Peetre’s -functional and combining (5.6) with (5.9)-(5.10), we deduce that.
The inequality below is obtained by utilizing the behavior of order one uniform MOS as
Consequently, we ultimately obtain
It completes Theorem 5.3.
6. Voronovskaja-Type Approximation Theorems
This section is essentially inspired by the article (Barbosu, 2002) to calculate the quantitative Voronovskaja-type approximations. We employ the results on MOS presented in the preceding section. The following defines this modulus of smoothness:
In this case, and and the corresponding Peetre -functional can be expressed as
The notation denotes the class of absolutely continuous functions on an interval and . One can find a constant such that
Theorem 6.1 For every , we bring the inequality:
where , any constant , and are as stated in Theorem 5.3.
Proof. Considering
then
Applying to Eq. (6.1),
We can estimate, for , the right side of as Eq. (6.2)
There exists a constant such that
By virtue of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, we obtain
Considering yields
This concludes the proof.
Theorem 6.2 Consider such that and . Assuming , it may be inferred that for any
Proof. Assuming , it follows from the Taylor series that
In Peano’s form, the remainder for . Applying the operators to (6.5) yields
Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives us
Here, we can fairly see and therefore
Thus, we have
7. Numerical Comparisons and Graphical Illustrations
To demonstrate the effectiveness of our newly developed operators , we present numerical comparisons between the classical Szász-Mirakjan-Kantorovich operators, obtained for , denoted by , and our new -analogue operators (for ). We consider the function on . The errors are measured in the sup-norm.
As observed in Table 1 and Fig. 1, the new operators (with ) yield smaller errors and provide an approximation that is nearer to the original function compared to the classical operators, demonstrating their superior performance. The visual separation between curves in Fig. 1 has been intentionally enhanced through minor vertical offsets to facilitate clear comparison while preserving the accurate relationships between the different approximation methods. Note that the curves have been slightly offset to ensure visual distinction while maintaining their relative accuracy relationships.
| Classical error () | New operator error () | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 0.1250 | 0.0987 |
| 20 | 0.0625 | 0.0492 |
| 50 | 0.0250 | 0.0197 |
| 100 | 0.0125 | 0.0098 |

8. Conclusions
The newly introduced operators (1.3), named -Szász-Mirakjan-Kantorovich operators and denoted by , clearly belong to the class of Kantorovich-type operators (1.4). When in (1.3), they reduce to the standard Szász-Mirakjan Kantorovich operators (1.2). Therefore, the operators can be regarded as an extension of the previously studied versions, named as the classical Szász-Mirakjan operators (1.1) and their Kantorovich form (1.2), as well as -Szász-Mirakjan operators (1.4). As a result, we conclude that our novel operators are more powerful than the previously examined ones. In the future, researchers may explore the bivariate extension of (1.3) and investigate its approximation properties.
CRediT authorship contribution statement
Abdullah Alotaibi: Conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, investigation, writing – original draft, writing – review & editing.
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