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This article treats the problem of the approximation of an analytic function f on the unit disk by rational functions having integral coefficients, with the goodness of each approximation being judged in terms of the maximum of the absolute values of the coefficients of the rational function. This relates to the more usual approximation by a rational function in that it could imply how many decimal places are needed when applying a particularly good rational function approximation having non-integrad coefficients.
It is shown how to obtain “good” approximations of this type and it is also shown how under certain circumstances “very good” bounds are not possible. As in diophantine approximation this means that many merely “good” approximations do exist, which may be the preferable case. The existence or nonexistence of “very good” approximations is closely related to the diophantine approximation of the first nonzero power series coefficient of at z=0. Nevanlinna theory methods are used in the proofs.
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Communicated by Andrew M. Odlyzko
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Osgood, C.F. Nevanlinna theory, diophantine approximation, and numerical analysis. The Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications 7, 309–317 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02511816
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