Asymptotics of Chebyshev polynomials. I: Subsets of R

Abstract: We consider Chebyshev polynomials,

T_{n} (z)

, for infinite, compact sets

f r a k e s u b s e t m a t h b b R

(that is, the monic polynomials minimizing the sup-norm,

V e r t T_{n} V e r t_{f r a k e}

, on

f r a k e

). We resolve a

45 +

year old conjecture of Widom that for finite gap subsets of

m a t h b b R

, his conjectured asymptotics (which we call SzegH{o}-Widom asymptotics) holds. We also prove the first upper bounds of the form

V e r t T_{n} V e r t_{f r a k e} l e q Q C (f r a k e)^{n}

(where

C (f r a k e)

is the logarithmic capacity of

f r a k e

) for a class of

f r a k e

's with an infinite number of components, explicitly for those

f r a k e s u b s e t m a t h b b R

that obey a Parreau-Widom condition.

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