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We present a survey of central developments in the theory of Chebyshev polynomials, introduced by P.~L.~Chebyshev and later extended to the complex plane by G.~Faber. Our primary focus is their defining extremal property: among all…

We study the problem of minimizing the supremum norm, on a segment of the real line or on a compact set in the plane, by polynomials with integer coefficients. The extremal polynomials are naturally called integer Chebyshev polynomials.…

The standard well-known Remez inequality gives an upper estimate of the values of polynomials on $[-1,1]$ if they are bounded by $1$ on a subset of $[-1,1]$ of fixed Lebesgue measure. The extremal solution is given by the rescaled Chebyshev…

We investigate the weighted Bojanov-Chebyshev extremal problem for trigonometric polynomials, that is, the minimax problem of minimizing $\|T\|_{w,C({\mathbb T})}$, where $w$ is a sufficiently nonvanishing, upper bounded, nonnegative weight…

We consider the problem of finding a best uniform approximation to the standard monomial on the unit ball in $\bbC^2$ by polynomials of lower degree with complex coefficients. We reduce the problem to a one-dimensional weighted minimization…

For a pair of conjugate trigonometrical polynomials $C (t) = \sum_ { j = 1 } ^N { { a_j}\cos jt }, S(t) = \sum_ { j = 1 } ^N { { a_j}\sin jt }$ with real coefficients and normalization ${a_1} = 1 $ we solve the extremal problem \[ \sup_…

We study the problem of minimizing the supremum norm by monic polynomials with integer coefficients. Let ${\M}_n({\Z})$ denote the monic polynomials of degree $n$ with integer coefficients. A {\it monic integer Chebyshev polynomial} $M_n…

The multivariate integer Chebyshev problem is to find polynomials with integer coefficients that minimize the supremum norm over a compact set in $\C^d.$ We study this problem on general sets, but devote special attention to product sets…

In the class of normalized sine-polynomials $S(t),$ non-negative on $[0,\pi],$ W.Rogosinski and G.Szeg\H{o} 1950 considered a number of extremal problems and proved, among other things, sharp upper and lower estimates for the coefficient…

A class P_{n,m,p}(x) of polynomials is defined. The combinatorial meaning of its coefficients is given. Chebyshev polynomials are the special cases of P_{n,m,p}(x). It is first shown that P_{n,m,p}(x) may be expressed in terms of…

We investigate an infinite sequence of polynomials of the form: \[a_0T_{n}(x)+a_{1}T_{n-1}(x)+\cdots+a_{m}T_{n-m}(x)\] where $(a_0,a_1,\ldots,a_m)$ is a fixed m-tuple of real numbers, $a_0,a_m\ne0$, $T_i(x)$ are Chebyshev polynomials of the…

We study the solution set to multivariate Chebyshev approximation problem, focussing on the ill-posed case when the uniqueness of solutions can not be established via strict polynomial separation. We obtain an upper bound on the dimension…

For the univalent polynomials $F(z) = \sum\limits_{j=1}^{N} a_j z^{2j-1}$ with real coefficients and normalization \(a_1 = 1\) we solve the extremal problem \[ \min_{a_j:\,a_1=1} \left( -iF(i) \right) = \min_{a_j:\,a_1=1}…

The article is concerned with polynomials $g(x)$ whose graphs are "partially packed" between two horizontal tangent lines. We assume that most of the local maximum points of $g(x)$ are on the first horizontal line, and most of the local…

This article is concerned with an extension of univariate Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind to the multivariate setting, where one chases best approximants to specific monomials by polynomials of lower degree relative to the uniform…

In this article the solution of the special problem of the conditional extremum for the conjugate trigonometric polynomials is given. A possibility to apply this result to the problems of optimal stabilization of quasidynamic chaos in…

This paper considers the approximation of a monomial $x^n$ over the interval $[-1,1]$ by a lower-degree polynomial. This polynomial approximation can be easily computed analytically and is obtained by truncating the analytical Chebyshev…

Chebyshev polynomials of the first and second kind for a set K are monic polynomials with minimal L $\infty$-and L 1-norm on K, respectively. This articles presents numerical procedures based on semidefinite programming to compute these…

This paper is devoted to Markov's extremal problems of the form $M_{n,k}=\sup_{p\in\PP_n\setminus\{0\}}{{\|p^{(k)}\|}_X}/{{\|p\|}_X}$ $(1\le k\le n)$, where $\PP_n$ is the set of all algebraic polynomials of degree at most $n$ and $X$ is a…

We establish a new extremal property of the classical Chebyshev polynomials in the context of best rank-one approximation of tensors. We also give some necessary conditions for a tensor to be a minimizer of the ratio of spectral and…