The Favard operator is an integral operator used in the field of functional analysis and approximation theory. It is typically associated with the approximation of functions and the study of convergence properties in various function spaces. The operator is used to construct a sequence of polynomials that can approximate continuous functions, particularly in the context of orthogonal polynomials. The Favard operator can be defined in a way that it maps continuous functions to sequences or series of polynomials by integrating against a certain measure.
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