Abstract. In this paper modular convergence theorems in Orlicz spaces for multivariate extensions of the one-dimensional moment operator are given and the order of modular convergence in modular Lipschitz classes is studied.
IntroductionIn several papers (see [18] and some of its generalized versions were studied. In particular, these operators have nice pointwise approximation properties. Indeed they reduce the essential jump of the function f at a point s ∈ [0, 1] and they converge to f (s) when s is a Lebesgue point of f . Moreover the use of these operators in problems of calculus of variation was very wide. For example it is possible to show that the sequence M n f converges in variation or in lenght to f . Again the one-dimensional moment operator has interesting applications to the fractional calculus and it was used in the study of the fractional dimension of measurable sets (see [18], [12]). In [9] and [11] some bivariate versions of the above operator were studied in connection with the pointwise convergence and convergence with respect to some functional of calculus of variation as, for example, the surface area and perimeter of sets. Some of these extended operators have a kernel given by radial functions which characterizes them as "metric type operators". It is important to remark that in the earlier paper [17], some of the above properties were obtained in a general form by considering families of Urysohn type operators.Here we give some multidimensional versions of the moment type or metric type operators and we study their convergence properties in the general frame of the Orlicz spaces. This enables us to obtain corresponding results in L p -spaces. In particular weMathematics subject classification (2000): 41A35, 47G10, 46E30.