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Chebyshev polynomials on equipotential curves

Complex Variables 2025-05-08 v1

Abstract

For an analytic function ϕ(z)\phi(z) with a Laurent expansion at \infty of the form \begin{equation*} \phi(z)=z+c_{0}+\frac{c_{1}}{z}+\frac{c_{2}}{z^{2}}+\cdots, \end{equation*} the Faber polynomial FnF_n of degree nn associated to ϕ\phi is the polynomial part of the Laurent series at \infty of ϕ(z)n\phi(z)^n. We prove that the nnth Chebyshev polynomial Tn,LrT_{n,L_r} for the equipotential curve Lr={zC:ϕ(z)=r}L_r=\{z\in \mathbb{C}:|\phi(z)|=r \} converges to FnF_n as rr\to\infty. The proof makes use of the fact that zero is the strongly unique best approximation to the monomial znz^n on the unit circle by polynomials of degree less than nn.

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@article{arxiv.2505.03967,
  title  = {Chebyshev polynomials on equipotential curves},
  author = {Erwin Miña-Díaz and Olof Rubin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.03967},
  year   = {2025}
}
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