The curse of dimensionality for the class of monotone functions and for the class of convex functions Original Research Article

We study the integration and approximation problems for monotone or convex bounded functions that depend on dd variables, where dd can be arbitrarily large. We consider the worst case error for algorithms that use finitely many function values. We prove that these problems suffer from the curse of dimensionality. That is, one needs exponentially many (in dd) function values to achieve an error εε.