Convergence of Padé approximants of partial theta functions and the Rogers-Szegö polynomials (Q1096820)

The authors investigate the convergence of sequences of Padé approximants for the partial theta function \[ h_ q(z):=\sum^{\infty}_{j=0}q^{j(j-1)/2}z^ j,\quad q=e^{i\theta},\quad \theta \in [0,2\pi). \] When \(\theta\) /2\(\pi\) is irrational, this function has the unit circle as its natural boundary. They determine subregions of \(| z| <1\) in which sequences of Padé approximants converge uniformly, and subregions in which the sequences converge in capacity, but not uniformly. In particular, they show that only a proper subsequence of the diagonal sequence \(\{[n/n]\}^{\infty}_{m=1}\) converges locally uniformly in all of \(| z| <1\); in contrast, no subsequence of any Padé row \(\{[m/n]\}^{\infty}_{m=1}\) (with \(n\geq 2\) fixed) can converge locally uniformly in all of \(| z| <1\). Further, they obtain the zero and pole distributions of sequences of Padé approximants by analyzing the zero distribution of the Rogers-Szegö polynomials \(G_ n(z):=\sum^{n}_{j=0}\left[ \begin{matrix} n\\ j\end{matrix} \right]z^ j,\) \(n=0,1,..\).