The study of approximation properties of the periodic functions in Lp (p ≥ 1)-spaces, in general and in Lipschitz classes Lip α, Lip (α, p), Lip (ξ(t), p) and weighted Lipschitz class W(Lp, ω(t), β), in particular, through trigonometric Fourier series, although is an old problem and known as Fourier approximation in the existing literature, has been of a growing interests over the last four decades due to its application in filters and signals [E. Z. Psarakis and G. V. Moustakides, An L2-based method for the design of 1-D zero phase FIR digital filters, IEEE Trans. Circuits Systems I Fundam. Theory Appl., 44(7) (1997) 551–601]. The most common methods used for the determination of the degree of approximation of periodic functions are based on the minimization of the Lp-norm of f(x) - Tn(x), where Tn(x) is a trigonometric polynomial of degree n and called approximant of the function f. In this paper, we discuss the approximation properties of the periodic functions in the Lipschitz classes Lip α and W(Lp , ω(t), β), p ≥ 1 by a trigonometric polynomial generated by the product matrix means of the Fourier series associated with the function. The degree of approximation obtained in our theorems of this paper is free from p and sharper than earlier results.
