Universal Padé approximants of Seleznev type (Q354686)

Skipping some technical details, the universal approximation properties that are proved here state that, for every meromorphic function \(h\) on \(\mathbb{C}_0=\mathbb{C}\setminus\{0\}\), there is a sequence of Padé approximants of some formal power series \(f\) converging to \(h\) uniformly in the chordal metric on compacts of \(\mathbb{C}_0\). A further manipulation of this result reveals that, if \(\mu\) is a \(\sigma\)-finite Borel measure on \(\mathbb{C}_0\) and \(h\) is \(\mu\)-measurable, then convergence holds \(\mu\)-almost everywhere in \(\mathbb{C}_0\). It is assumed here that the degrees of the numerator and the denominator of the sequence of Padé approximants both go to \(\infty\). If only compacts \(K\subset\mathbb{C}_0\) are considered with connected complement, then the last results also holds when only the numerator degree goes to \(\infty\). Hence this will also include polynomial results as originally considered by \textit{A. I. Seleznev} in [Mat. Sb., N. Ser. 28(70), 453--460 (1951; Zbl 0043.29501)], which explains the title.