Smoothing Approximations to Non-smooth Functions

Abstract

In this study, a new smoothing method is proposed for non-smooth functions. The theoretical results and error estimates are presented about this new smoothing method. Finally, some numerical examples are given.

Keywords

• non-smooth functions,, smoothing techniques

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