From the Maclaurin expansion of a function f̄(p) of the Laplace transform operator p, rational function approximations to f̄(p) are generated by means of a new nonlinear sequence to sequence ...

For a rational matrix function Φ with poles outside the unit circle, we estimate the degree of the unique superoptimal approximation 𝒜Φ by matrix functions analytic in the unit disk. We obtain sharp ...