A note on rational \(L^p\) approximation on Jordan curves (Q380804)

The author starts with a nice introduction into the subject at hand: Given a rectifiable Jordan curve \(T\) with interior domain \(G\) and exterior domain \(O\) (with respect to \(\overline{\mathbf{C}}\)), the set \(A(G)\) consists of functions \(f\) with {\parindent=6mm \begin{itemize}\item[{\(\bullet\)}] \(f\) vanishes at infinity and admits holomorphic and single-valued continuation from infinity to an open neighborhood of \(\overline{O}\), \item[{\(\bullet\)}] \(f\) admits meromorphic, possibly multi-valued, continuation along any arc in \(G\setminus E_f\) starting from \(T\), where \(E_f\) is a finite set of points in \(G\), \item[{\(\bullet\)}] \(E_f\) is non-empty, the meromorphic continuation of \(f\) from infinity has a branch point at each element of \(E_f\). \end{itemize}} The reader is referred to the important paper by \textit{L. Baratchart} et al. [Adv. Math. 229, No. 1, 357--407 (2012; Zbl 1232.41014)], where the theory is developed and which contains the a.o. result \[ \lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\, \rho_{n,p}^{1/2n}(f,O)=\exp{\left(-{1\over\text{cap}(K_T,T)}\right)}\tag{1} \] for \(p=2\) (\(\rho_{n,p}(f,O)\) is the error of the best approximation in \(L^{p}(s_T)\), approximation is done with rational functions \(p/q\) with deg\(\,p=n-1\), deg\(\,q=n\), \(s_T\) is the arc measure on \(T\)). As (1) follows for \(p=\infty\) from a result in a paper by \textit{A. A. Gonchar} and \textit{E. A. Rakhmanov} [Math. USSR, Sb. 62, No. 2, 305--348 (1989); translation from Mat. Sb., Nov. Ser. 134(176), No. 3(11), 306--352 (1987; Zbl 0663.30039)], it holds for all \(2\leq p\leq \infty\). In the paper under review, (1) is derived for all \(1\leq p\leq\infty\), directly from Theorem 1 in the paper by Gonchar and Rakhmanov cited above.