Notes on the Szego minimum problem. I. Measures with deep zeroes

The classical Szego polynomial approximation theorem states that the polynomials are dense in the space $L^2(\rho)$, where $\rho$ is a measure on the unit circle, if and only if the logarithmic integral of the measure $\rho$ diverges. In this note we give a quantitative version of Szego's theorem in the special case when the divergence of the logarithmic integral is caused by deep zeroes of the measure $\rho$ on a sufficiently rare subset of the circle.