A Weierstrass-type theorem for homogeneous polynomials

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-08-04625-4zbMATH Open1180.41005arXivmath/0510367OpenAlexW2131818430MaRDI QIDQ3617628FDOQ3617628

Authors: D. Benko, András Kroó 

Publication date: 30 March 2009

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By the celebrated Weierstrass Theorem the set of algebraic polynomials is dense in the space of continuous functions on a compact set in R^d. In this paper we study the following question: does the density hold if we approximate only by homogeneous polynomials? Since the set of homogeneous polynomials is nonlinear this leads to a nontrivial problem. It is easy to see that: 1) density may hold only on star-like origin-symmetric surfaces; 2) at least 2 homogeneous polynomials are needed for approximation. The most interesting special case of a star-like surface is a convex surface. It has been conjectured by the second author that functions continuous on origin-symmetric convex surfaces in R^d can be approximated by a pair of homogeneous polynomials. This conjecture is not resolved yet but we make substantial progress towards its positive settlement. In particular, it is shown in the present paper that the above conjecture holds for 1) d=2, 2) convex surfaces in R^d with C^(1+epsilon) boundary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510367

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zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous polynomialsuniform approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in two dimensions (31A05) Approximation by polynomials (41A10) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20)

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