Padé approximants, continued fractions, and orthogonal polynomials

A. I. Aptekarev   ; V. I. Buslaev   ; A. Martínez-Finkelshtein   ; S. P. Suetin

Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, Tome 66 (2011) no. 6, pp. 1049-1131

Résumé

This is a survey of results constituting the foundations of the modern convergence theory of Padé approximants. Bibliography: 204 titles.

Détail

Keywords: rational approximation, equilibrium distributions, stationary compact sets, $S$-property.
Mots-clés : orthogonal polynomials, Padé approximants

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