A Sequence of Kantorovich-Type Operators on Mobile Intervals

In this paper, we introduce and study a new sequence of positive linear operators, acting on both spaces of continuous functions as well as spaces of integrable functions on $[0, 1]$. We state some qualitative properties of this sequence and we prove that it is an approximation process both in $C([0, 1])$ and in $L^p([0, 1])$, also providing  some estimates of the rate of convergence. Moreover, we determine an asymptotic formula and, as an application,  we  prove that certain iterates of the operators converge, both in $C([0, 1])$ and, in some cases,  in $L^p([0, 1])$, to a limit semigroup. Finally, we show that our operators, under suitable hypotheses, perform better than  other existing ones in the literature.