Asymptotic Uniqueness of Best Rational Approximants to Complex Cauchy Transforms in $L^2$ of the Circle

Abstract

For all n large enough, we show uniqueness of a critical point in best rational approximation of degree n, in the L^2-sense on the unit circle, to functions f, where f is a sum of a Cauchy transform of a complex measure μsupported on a real interval included in (-1,1), whose Radon-Nikodym derivative with respect to the arcsine distribution on its support is Dini-continuous, non-vanishing and with and argument of bounded variation, and of a rational function with no poles on the support of μ.

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