Diameters of classes of functions defined on a line (Q1063192)

Let \(L_ q({\mathbb{R}})>{\mathcal M}_{\nu q}\), \(\nu\geq 0\), denote the subset of entire functions of exponential type \(\nu\). It is known that for the best approximation of \(W^ r_ p\) by \({\mathcal M}_{\nu q}\) in the \(L_ q\) metric we have \(E_{\nu}(W^ r_ p,L_ q)=\sup_{x\in W^ r_ p}\inf_{y\in {\mathcal M}_{\nu q}}\| x-y\|_ q\asymp \nu^{- r+1/p-1/q}.\) In this paper it is proved that for some p and q the above result can be essentially improved if instead of \({\mathcal M}_{\nu q}\) the set of entire functions with supports of their Fourier transforms concentrated on some set with measure equal to \(2\nu\) and different from [-\(\nu\),\(\nu\) ] is considered.