Kronecker type theorems, normality and continuity of the multivariate Padé operator

For univariate functions the Kronecker theorem, stating the equivalence between the existence of an infinite block in the table of Padé approximants and the approximated function f being rational, is well-known. In [Lubi88] Lubinsky proved that if f is not rational, then its Padé table is normal almost everywhere: for an at most countable set of points the Taylor series expansion of f is such that it generates a non-normal Padé table. This implies that the Padé operator is an almost always continuous operator because it is continuous when computing a normal Padé approximant [Wuyt81]. In this paper we generalize the above results to the case of multivariate Padé approximation. We distinguish between two different approaches for the definition of multivariate Padé approximants: the general order one introduced in [Levi76, CuVe84] and the so-called homogeneous one discussed in [Cuyt84].