Equilibrium of vector potentials and uniformization of the algebraic curves of genus \(0\) (Q1035602)

The authors study the equilibrium problems for a logarithmic vector potential, related to the asymptotics of simultaneous Hermite-Padé approximants of Angelesco type systems. This deep paper treats in detail the supports and components of the equilibrium measures and the connection with branches of the algebraic function system; the branch points are located at the end points of the underlying non-overlapping intervals where the measures of the Angelesco system `lives'. Moreover, they give explicitly the algebraic coefficients of the algebraic equation for the Riemann surface (of genus \(0\)). The cuts of the surface are attractive sets for the poles of the Hermite-Padé approximants. The methods and proofs are described for the case of \(p=2\) functions (where, indeed, the generalization to \(p\geq 3\) is straightforward). The paper is the English version of the work announced in two preprints that appeared in Russian in 1986 and 2007 [\textit{A. I. Aptekarev, V. A. Kalyagin}, Asymptotic behavior of an nth degree root of polynomials of simultaneous orthogonality, and algebraic functions, Akad. Nauk SSSR Inst. Prikl. Mat. Preprint (60) (1986); \textit{A. I. Aptekarev, V. G. Lysov, D. N. Toulyakov}, Three-sheeted Riemann surfaces of genus \(0\) with fixed projections of the branch points, Preprint, Inst. Appl. Math. Russia Akad. Sci. (13) (2007)].