Convergence rate of Padé-type approximants for Stieltjes functions (Q1298548)

Consider \(f\) to be a continuous, almost everywhere positive function on the real line with \(f(x)\sim|x|^\gamma\) for \(|x|\to \infty\) and some \(\gamma> 1\). The authors study the rate convergence of Padé-type approximants to the Stieltjes-function \[ \widehat\rho(z)= \int_{\mathbb{R}} {\exp(-f(x))\over z-x} dx \] for \(z\) not real. If \((m(n))\) is a sequence of integers with \(0\leq m(n)\leq n\) and \(m(n)/n\to \theta\in [0,1)\), the main result states the following: Let \(r_n\) be the \(n\)th Padé-type approximant of \(\widehat\rho\) with preassigned poles at the zeros of \(\ell^2_n\), where \(\ell_n\) denotes the orthonormal polynomial of degree \(m(n)/2\) with respect to the Freud weight \(dw_\beta(x)= \exp(-|x|^\beta)\) for some \(\beta\in (1,\gamma)\). Then we have \[ \limsup_{n\to\infty} {\log|\widehat\rho(z)- r_n(z)|\over n^{1-1/\gamma}}\leq -2(1- \theta)^{1- 1/\gamma} D(\gamma)|\text{Im}(z)| \] with uniform convergence on each compact subset of \(\mathbb{C}\setminus\mathbb{R}\), where \[ D(\gamma):= {\gamma\over \gamma-1} \Biggl[{\Gamma((\gamma+ 1)/2)\over \Gamma(\gamma/2)}\Biggr]^{1/\gamma}. \]