Canonical products and the weights \(\exp (-| x| ^{\alpha})\), \(\alpha >1\), with applications (Q1089541)

Let \(\alpha >1\). It is shown that for each positive integer n there exists an even polynomial \(S_ n(x)\) of degree at most n satisfying \(S_ n(x)\sim \exp (-| x|^{\alpha})\) and \(| S_ n'(x)| \leq C_ 2| x|^{\alpha -1}\exp (-| x|^{\alpha})\) for all \(| x| \leq C_ 1n^{1/\alpha}\), where \(C_ 1\) and \(C_ 2\) are positive constants independent of n. This result completes G. Freud's theory on weighted approximation and enables the authors to estimate Christoffel functions for all \(\alpha >1\) as well as to prove \(L_ p\) Markov-Bernstein inequalities for all \(\alpha >1\) and all \(0<p\leq \infty\).