Riemann-Hilbert analysis and uniform convergence of rational interpolants to the exponential function (Q1764871): Difference between revisions

The polynomials \(p\) and \(q\) of degrees \(n\) constituting rational approximants to the exponential function satisfy the relation \(p(z)\exp(-z/2)+q(z)\exp(z/2)= O(\omega_{2n+1}(z))\), as \(z\) tends to the roots of the complex polynomial \(\omega_{2n+1}(z)\). The large \(n\) asymptotics is studied of the polynomials \(p\) and \(q\), which are characterized by a Riemann-Hilbert problem for a \(2\times2\) matrix valued function. The Deift-Zhou steepest descent method for Riemann-Hilbert problems is used to obtain strong uniform asymptotics for the scaled polynomials \(p(2nz)\) and \(q(2nz)\) in every domain of the complex plane. A precise estimate of the error function is given.