On the approximation of analytic functions in a strip

Abstract

1. Letand denote by Aδ the class of functions f analytic in the strip Sδ = {z = x + iy| |y| < δ}, real on the real axis, and satisfying |Ref(z)| ≤ 1,z∊Sδ. Then N.I. Achieser ([1], pp. 214–219; [8], pp. 137–8, 149) proved that each f∊Aδ can be uniformly approximated on the whole real axis by an entire function fc of exponential type at most c with an errorwhere ∥·∥∞ is the sup norm on ℝ. Furthermore ([7], pp. 196–201), if f∊Aδ is 2π-periodic, then the uniform approximation Ẽn (Aδ) of the class Aδ by trigonometric polynomials of degree at most n is given by