An extension of the ' 1/9 '-problem

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 233, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 821-834

  Stahl, Herbert ^a   Schmelzer, Thomas ^b  

^a BEUTH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Winton Capital Management Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

' 1 9' problem; Complex approximation; Rational approximation

Indexed keywords

' 1/9'-PROBLEM; APPROXIMANTS; ASYMPTOTIC CONVERGENCE; ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; ASYMPTOTIC RATE; COMPACT SUBSETS; COMPLEX APPROXIMATION; COMPLEX PLANES; CONVERGENCE BEHAVIORS; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; MATRIX; NOT GIVEN; NTH ROOT; RATIONAL APPROXIMANTS; RATIONAL APPROXIMATION; RATIONAL APPROXIMATIONS; RATIONAL FUNCTION; UNIFORM NORM;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; FUNCTION EVALUATION;

CHAOS THEORY;

EID: 69849099015     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2009.02.084     Document Type: Article

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