Rational approximation to $e\sp{-x}$. II

Rational Approximation, II

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...

Best Uniform Rational Approximation of x on [0, 1]

For the uniform approximation of xα on [0, 1] by rational functions the following strong error estimate is proved: Let Enn(x, [0, 1]) denote the minimal approximation error in the uniform norm on [0, 1] of rational approximants to xα with numerator and denominator degree at most n, then the the limit lim n→∞ e √ Enn(x , [0, 1]) = 4| sinπα| holds for all α > 0.

Best Uniform Rational Approximation of x on [ 0

UNIFORM RATIONAL APPROXIMATION OF x α ON [ 0 , 1 ]

where ‖ · ‖K denotes the sup norm on K ⊆ R. It is well known that the best approximant r∗ mn exists and is unique within Rmn (cf. [Me, §§9.1, 9.2] or [Ri, §5.1]). The unique existence also holds in the special case (n = 0) of best polynomial approximants. Since fα(x) := |x|α is an even function on [−1, 1], the same is true for its unique approximant r∗ mn = r ∗ mn(fα, [−1, 1]; ·), and consequen...