Padé interpolation by F-polynomials and transfinite diameter

Dan Coman and Evgeny A. Poletsky

Abstract: We define F-polynomials as linear combinations of dilations by some frequencies of an entire function F. In this paper, we use Padé interpolation of holomorphic functions in the unit disk by F-polynomials to obtain explicitly approximating F-polynomials with sharp estimates on their coefficients. We show that when frequencies lie in a compact set K⊂ℂ, then optimal choices for the frequencies of interpolating F-polynomials are similar to Fekete points. Moreover, the minimal norms of the interpolating operators form a sequence whose rate of growth is determined by the transfinite diameter of K.
In case of the Laplace transforms of measures on K, we show that the coefficients of interpolating F-polynomials stay bounded provided that the frequencies are Fekete points. Finally, we give a sufficient condition for measures on the unit circle that ensures that the sums of the absolute values of the coefficients of interpolating F-polynomials stay bounded.

Journal: Constructive Approximation, Volume 36, Number 2 (2012), 311-329.

DOI: 10.1007/s00365-011-9148-5