Extremal quasiconformality vs bounded rational approximation

Weighted Extremal Domains and Best Rational Approximation

Let f be holomorphically continuable over the complex plane except for finitely many branch points contained in the unit disk. We prove that best rational approximants to f of degree n, in the L2-sense on the unit circle, have poles that asymptotically distribute according to the equilibrium measure on the compact set outside of which f is single-valued and which has minimal Green capacity in t...

L-bounded Point Evaluations for Polynomials and Uniform Rational Approximation

A connection is established between uniform rational approximation and approximation in the mean by polynomials on compact nowhere dense subsets of the complex plane C. Peak points for R(X) and bounded point evaluations for Hp(X, dA), 1 ≤ p < ∞, play a fundamental role.

Real vs Complex Rational Chebyshev Approximation on an Interval

Real VS. Complex Rational Chebyshev Approximation on an Interval

I f f E C[-I, I] is real-valued, let Er( f ) and E'( f ) be the errors in best approximation to f in the supremum norm by rational functions of type ( m , n ) with real and complex coefficients, respectively. It has recently been observed that E'( f ) < Er( f ) can occur for any n > 1, but for no n 1 is it known whether y,,,, = inf, E'( f ) / E r ( f ) is zero or strictly positive. Here we show...

Rational Approximation

Recently several authors have investigated the question of approximating certain functions by reciprocals of polynomials under the uniform norm on the positive real axis . Perhaps these results have some applications in industry and elsewhere (cf. [1, 36]) . Our present motivation is to give a detailed list of all the known results with simplified proofs in some cases and many new results and f...