Best rational approximation to Markov functions (Q1321518)

The main result of this paper concerns rational approximations of Markov- Stieltjes functions in the dual spaces \(L^ p/H^ p\), \(1\leq p\leq\infty\), on the unit circle of the complex plane. For fixed \(n\) this paper considers approximation by rationals whose denominators have \(n\) different zeros all with double multiplicity. In general these rationals are of order \(2n\) but this paper shows that there is a best approximating one and that this one is of order \(n\) only.