Simultaneous zero-free approximation and universal optimal polynomial approximants

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Abstract: Let E be a closed subset of the unit circle of measure zero. Recently, Beise and M"uller showed the existence of a function in the Hardy space H2 for which the partial sums of its Taylor series approximate any continuous function on E. In this paper, we establish an analogue of this result in a non-linear setting where we consider optimal polynomial approximants of reciprocals of functions in H2 instead of Taylor polynomials. The proof uses a new result on simultaneous zero-free approximation of independent interest. Our results extend to Dirichlet-type spaces mathcalDalpha for alphain[0,1].


Let \(H^2\) be the Hardy space of the unit disk \(\mathbb{D}\) and \(f\in H^2\setminus\{0\}\), then \(Q_n(1/f)\) is an optimal polynomial approximation (o.p.a.) for \(1/f\) if it minimizes \(\|qf-1\|_2\) over all polynomials \(q\) of degree at most \(n\). \(C(E)\) is the space of continuous functions on a closed subset \(E\) of the unit circle \(\mathbb{T}\) of measure zero, and \(\mathcal{U}_E\) the class of functions \(f\) with universal o.p.a.\ on \(E\), meaning that there is a subsequence of o.p.a.'s \((Q_n(1/f))\) that converges to \(g\) for any \(g\in C(E)\). The main theorem of this paper states that \(\mathcal{U}_E\) is \(G_\delta\) dense in \(H^2\). This is a generalization of a theorem proved in [\textit{H.-P. Beise} and \textit{J. Müller}, Math. Z. 284, No. 3--4, 1185--1197 (2016; Zbl 1360.30003)] for truncated Taylor series of \(1/f\) instead of o.p.a.'s. The proof is based on a result stating that for \((f,g)\in H^2\times C(E)\), with \(f(z)\ne0\) in \(\mathbb{D}\), there is a sequence of polynomials \(P_n\) not vanishing in \(\mathbb{D}\cup\mathbb{T}\) that converges simultaneously to \(f\) and to \(g\) in the associated topologies. To prove these, Baire's category theorem is used to obtain an explicit form for \(\mathcal{U}_E\). It is also shown that the truncated Taylor series result for the Dirichlet space of [\textit{J. Müller}, Anal. Math. Phys. 9, No. 2, 875--885 (2019; Zbl 1429.30057)] can be generalized to the o.p.a.\ setting for nowhere vanishing functions.



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