Perfect spline approximation Original Research Article

Our study of perfect spline approximation reveals: (i) it is closely related to ΣΔ modulation used in one-bit quantization of bandlimited signals. In fact, they share the same recursive formulae, although in different contexts; (ii) the best rate of approximation by perfect splines of order r with equidistant knots of mesh size h is hr−1. This rate is optimal in the sense that a function can be approximated with a better rate if and only if it is a polynomial of degree