Turkish Journal of Analysis and Number Theory, 2014, Vol. 2, No. 6, 198-201 Available online at http://pubs.sciepub.com/tjant/2/6/2 © Science and Education Publishing DOI:10.12691/tjant-2-6-2 Using the Matrix Summability Method to Approximate the Lip (ξ(t), p) Class Functions Binod Prasad Dhakal * Central Department of Education (Mathematics), Tribhuvan University, Nepal *Corresponding author: binod_dhakal2004@yahoo.com Received October 06, 2014; Revised November 15, 2014; Accepted November 23, 2014 Abstract Most of the summability methods are derived from the matrix means. In this paper, author has been determined the degree of approximation of certain trigonometric functions belonging to the Lip (ξ(t), p) class by matrix method. Keywords: matrix means, degree of approximation, generalized Lipschitz class functions Cite This Article: Binod Prasad Dhakal, “Using the Matrix Summability Method to Approximate the Lip (ξ(t), p) Class Functions.” Turkish Journal of Analysis and Number Theory, vol. 2, no. 6 (2014): 198-201. doi: 10.12691/tjant-2-6-2. 1. Introduction The Fourier series associate with f at point x of 2π periodic function in (-π, π) is given by ( ) 0 n n 1 1 ( )~ a cos nx b sin nx . 2 n fx a = + + (1.1) A function f Lip α if ( ) ( ) () , 0 1. f x t f x O t for α α + = < ( , ), 0 2 f Lip p for x α π , if ( ) 1 2 0 ( ) () , p p f x t fx dx O t π α + = for 0 < α ≤ 1 and an integer 1 p . ( ) ( ), f Lip t p ξ if 1 ( ) () ( ( )) b p p a fx t fx dx O t ξ + = provided () t ξ is positive increasing function. If ξ(t) = t α then Lip (ξ(t), p) coincide with Lip(α, p) and if p → ∞ in Lip(α, p) than Lip(α, p) reduce to Lip α. We observed that Lip α Lip (α, p) Lip (ξ(t), p) for 0 < α ≤ 1. We define norm . p by 1 2 0 () , 1. p p p f f x dx p π = (1.2) The degree of approximation E n (f) is given by ( ) min n n p E f t f = (1.3) where t n (x) is a trigonometric polynomial of degree n. Let T=(a n,k ) be an infinite lower triangular matrix satisfying the condition(see, [4]) of regularity. Let 0 n m u be an = infinite series such that whose th n partial sum s n = 0 n k k u = . The sequence-to-sequence transformation , 0 n n nk k k t a s = = defines the sequence { } n t of lower triangular matrix means of the sequence {s n } generated by the sequence of coefficients (a n,k ). The series 0 n n u = is said to be summable to the sum s by lower triangular matrix method (see, [1]) if lim n n t s →∞ = . In this paper, we use following notations. () ( ) ( ) ( ) 2 t f x t f x t f x ϕ = + + (1.4) , , , n n nk k n A a τ τ =− = (1.5) where 1 t τ  =   is the greatest integer not greater than (1/t) and ( ) n 1 , 2 0 M (t) sin 1/2 sin( / 2) n nk k k t a t π = + = . (1.6)