On two complex Zolotarev's first problems (Q807772)

Let \({\mathcal B}\) be a compact subset of the complex plane. For fixed \(n\geq 2\) and \(\sigma\in {\mathbb{C}}\) let \({\mathcal P}\) be the class of all polynomials \[ p(z)=z^ n+\sigma z^{n+1}+\sum^{n-2}_{k=0}a_ kz^ k. \] Then a polynomial \(Z_{\sigma}\) satisfying \[ \max_{z\in B}| Z_{\sigma}(z)| =\min_{p\in {\mathcal P}}\max_{z\in {\mathcal B}}| p(z)| \] is called Zolotarev polynomial of B. The authors give an explicit expression for \(Z_{\sigma}\) with \(\sigma =i\tau\), \(\tau\in {\mathbb{R}}\), \(| \tau | >1\) in the case \(B=[-1,1]\), complementing a result of \textit{R. Freund} [ibid. 4, 111-121 (1988; Zbl 0645.41021)], who treated the case \(| \tau | \leq 1\). Further the authors investigate the case \(B=\{| z| =1\}\).