Sums of exponentials with restricted frequencies (Q1104504)

Let \(F(A,x)=\sum^{n}_{k=1}a_ k \exp (a_{n+k}x)\), where \(A=\{a_ 1,...,a_{2n}\}\) is a set of 2n real numbers. As was shown by the author in a series of previous papers [J. Comput. Appl. Math. 5, 53-57 (1979; Zbl 0401.41024), J. Approximation Theory 40, 155-157 (1984; Zbl 0532.41034) and ibid. Appl. 1, No.1, 77-80 (1984; Zbl 0591.41021)], associated with such families of sums of exponentials appears serious topological and analytical difficulties. The main result of the paper asserts that if \((a^ j_{n+k})\) converges to \(a^ 0_{n+k}\), \(k=1,...,n\), and the sequence \((\| f(A^ j,.)\|)\) is bounded (here \(\| \cdot \|\) denotes the Chebyshev norm on an interval [\(\alpha\),\(\beta\) ]) then \((A^ j)\) contains a subsequence \((A^{j(i)})\) converging to A and the corresponding sequence \((F(A^{j(i)},.))\) converges, uniformly on [\(\alpha\),\(\beta\) ], to the function F(A,.), with \(a^ j_{n+k}=a^ 0_{n+k}\), \(k=1,...,n\). This result shows that the mentioned difficulties can be ameliorated by restricting the frequencies (i.e. the \(a_{n+k}'s)\). \textit{H. Werner} [Approximation Theory, Proc. Sympos. Lancaster 1969, 109-136 (1970; Zbl 0214.079)] approached this problem by enlarging the family.