Yattselev, Maxim L.2017-12-072017-12-072018-01Yattselev, M. L. (2018). Symmetric contours and convergent interpolation. Journal of Approximation Theory, 225, 76-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jat.2017.10.003https://hdl.handle.net/1805/14730The essence of Stahl–Gonchar–Rakhmanov theory of symmetric contours as applied to the multipoint Padé approximants is the fact that given a germ of an algebraic function and a sequence of rational interpolants with free poles of the germ, if there exists a contour that is “symmetric” with respect to the interpolation scheme, does not separate the plane, and in the complement of which the germ has a single-valued continuation with non-identically zero jump across the contour, then the interpolants converge to that continuation in logarithmic capacity in the complement of the contour. The existence of such a contour is not guaranteed. In this work we do construct a class of pairs interpolation scheme/symmetric contour with the help of hyperelliptic Riemann surfaces (following the ideas of Nuttall and Singh, 1977; Baratchart and Yattselev, 2009). We consider rational interpolants with free poles of Cauchy transforms of non-vanishing complex densities on such contours under mild smoothness assumptions on the density. We utilize ∂̄-extension of the Riemann–Hilbert technique to obtain formulae of strong asymptotics for the error of interpolation.enPublisher Policyorthogonal polynomialsmultipoint Padé approximationnon-Hermitian orthogonalityArticle