Approximation by boolean sums of Jackson operators on the sphere

Abstract: This paper concerns the approximation by the Boolean sums of Jackson operators $\oplus^rJ_{k,s}(f)$ on the unit sphere $\mathbb S^{n-1}$ of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. We prove the following the direct and inverse theorem for $\oplus^rJ_{k,s}(f)$: there are constants $C_1$ and $C_2$ such that \begin{equation*} C_1|\oplus^rJ_{k,s}f-f|_p \leq \omega^{2r}(f,k^{-1})_p \leq C_2 \max_{v\geq k}|\oplus^rJ_{k,s}f-f|_p \end{equation*} for any positive integer $k$ and any $p$th Lebesgue integrable functions $f$ defined on $\mathbb S^{n-1}$, where $\omega^{2r}(f,t)_p$ is the modulus of smoothness of degree $2r$ of $f$. We also prove that the saturation order for $\oplus^rJ_{k,s}$ is $k^{-2r}$.