On asymptotics of entropy of a class of analytic functions

Abstract

Let $(K,D)$ be a compact subset of an open set $D$ on a Stein manifold $\Omega$ of dimension $n$, $H^\infty(D)$ the Banach space of all bounded and analytic in $D$ functions endowed with the uniform norm, and $A_{K}^{D}$ be a compact subset in the space of continuous functions $C(K)$ consisted of all restrictions of functions from the unit ball $\mathbb{B}_{H^\infty(D)}$. In 1950s Kolmogorov raised the problem of a strict asymptotics ([K1,K2,KT]) of an entropy of this class of analytic functions: $\mathcal{H}_{\varepsilon}(A_{K}^{D})\sim\tau(\ln\frac{1}{\varepsilon})^{n+1},\varepsilon\rightarrow 0,$ with a constant $\tau $. The main result of this paper, which generalizes and strengthens the Levin's and Tikhomirov's result in [LT], shows that this asymptotics is equivalent to the asymptotics for the widths (Kolmogorov diameters): $\ln d_{k}(A_{K}^{D})\sim -\sigma k^{1/n}, k\rightarrow \infty $, with the constant $\sigma =(\frac{2}{\tau( n+1)})^{1/n}$. This result makes it possible to get a positive solution of the above entropy problem by applying recent results [Z2] on the asymptotics for the widths $d_{k}(A_{K}^{D})$.