On the density of multivariate polynomials with varying weights

Abstract

In this paper we consider multivariate approximation by weighted polynomials of the form w γ n ( x ) p n ( x ) w^{\gamma _n}(\mathbf {x})p_n(\mathbf {x}) , where p n p_n is a multivariate polynomial of degree at most n n , w w is a given nonnegative weight with nonempty zero set, and γ n ↑ ∞ \gamma _n\uparrow \infty . We study the question if every continuous function vanishing on the zero set of w w is a uniform limit of weighted polynomials w γ n ( x ) p n ( x ) w^{\gamma _n}(\mathbf {x})p_n(\mathbf {x}) . It turns out that for various classes of weights in order for this approximation property to hold it is necessary and sufficient that γ n = o ( n ) . \gamma _n=o(n).