On the power of standard information for tractability for $L_\infty$ approximation of periodic functions in the worst case setting

Abstract: We study multivariate approximation of periodic function in the worst case setting with the error measured in the $L_\infty$ norm. We consider algorithms that use standard information $\Lambda^{\rm std}$ consisting of function values or general linear information $\Lambda^{\rm all}$ consisting of arbitrary continuous linear functionals. We investigate the equivalences of various notions of algebraic and exponential tractability for $\Lambda^{\rm std}$ and $\Lambda^{\rm all}$ under the absolute or normalized error criterion, and show that the power of $\Lambda^{\rm std}$ is the same as the one of $\Lambda^{\rm all}$ for some notions of algebraic and exponential tractability. Our result can be applied to weighted Korobov spaces and Korobov spaces with exponential weight. This gives a special solution to Open problem 145 as posed by Novak and Wo\'zniakowski (2012).