Entire Functions of Order 1/2 in the Approximation to Functions on a Semiaxis

Abstract

We present a theorem in the present paper on an approximation to functions of a Hölder class on a countable union of segments lying on a positive ray by entire functions of order 1/2 bounded on this ray. Problems related to the approximation of entire functions on subsets of the semiaxis by using entire functions of order 1/2 are closely related to problems of approximating functions on subsets of the whole axis using entire functions of exponential type but have their own specifics. We consider segments I_n in this paper with lengths of order n such that the distance between I_n and I_n + 1 is also of order n. Cases of the whole semiaxis or the union of finitely many segments and a ray were considered in previous papers. As for the problem of approximating functions of the Hölder class on the union of a countable set of segments on the whole axis, it turns out that the approximation rate at neighborhoods of the segment endpoints as the type of the functions increases is higher than that in a neighborhood of their midpoints.