Polynomials with exponents in compact convex sets and associated weighted extremal functions -- The Bernstein-Walsh-Siciak theorem

Abstract

We generalize the Bernstein-Walsh-Siciak theorem on polynomial approximation in $\mathbb{C}^n$ to the case where the polynomial ring $\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{C}^n)$ is replaced by a subring $\mathcal{P}^S(\mathbb{C}^n)$ consisting of all polynomials with exponents restricted to sets $mS$, where $S$ is a compact convex subset of $\mathbb{R}_+^n$ with $0 \in S$ and $m = 0, 1, 2, 3, \dots$, and uniform estimates of error in the approximation are replaced by weighted uniform estimates with respect to an admissible weight function.