The capacity of some sets in the complex plane (Q1420677)

From MaRDI portal
Revision as of 01:22, 10 February 2024 by RedirectionBot (talk | contribs) (‎Removed claim: reviewed by (P1447): Item:Q167567)
scientific article
Language Label Description Also known as
English
The capacity of some sets in the complex plane
scientific article

    Statements

    The capacity of some sets in the complex plane (English)
    0 references
    0 references
    22 January 2004
    0 references
    Let \(s\in\mathbb{N}\) and \(0\leq a< b\), and let \(K\) be the union of line segments \(\bigcup^{s-1}_{k=0} e^{2\pi ik/s}[a, b]\). The author shows that the logarithmic capacity of \(K\) is given by \(((b^s- a^s)/4)^{1/s}\). As an application he deduces a saturation result concerning approximation by polynomials with integer coefficients. More precisely, let \(\mathbb{P}^I_n\) denote the collection of all polynomials of degree at most \(n\) with integer coefficients. Also, given \(f\in C(K)\), let \(E^I_n(f, K)= \inf_P\| f- P\|\), where the infimum is over all \(P\in \mathbb{P}^I_n\) and \(\| \cdot \|\) denotes the supremum norm over \(K\). It is shown that, if \(b^s- a^s< 1\) and \(\sum_n (4/(b^s- a^s))^{n/s}E^I_n(f, K)\) converges, then \(f\in \mathbb{P}^I_n\).
    0 references
    logarithmic capacity
    0 references
    conformal mapping
    0 references
    saturation
    0 references
    polynomial approximation
    0 references

    Identifiers

    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references