Extremal problems in classes of entire functions bounded on the real axis (Q1603103)

Denote by \(B_\sigma\) the class of entire functions of finite order \(\leq\sigma\), bounded on the axis \(\mathbb R\). S.~N.~Bernstein was the first to introduce this class and proved that \(\forall f\in B_\sigma\) an unimprovable inequality takes place \(|f'(x)|\leq \sigma\|f(x)\|_C = \sigma\sup_{x\in\mathbb R} |f(x)|\quad \forall x\in\mathbb R.\) Numerous investigations were published in which this inequality was generalized in various directions, and transferred onto other classes of functions with various applications. In this article the author attempts to consider from a unified standpoint all such partial problems and to show that all of them can be joined into a unique scheme. The approach is based on a description of annihilators of some classes of entire functions, which enable one to establish duality relations, discover a series of peculiarities of the problems under investigation, establish a connection between extremal problems and the best approximation problem.