Convergence of Padé approximants for a q-hypergeometric series (Wynn's Power Series III). (Summary).
We study convergence of formal power series along families of formal or analytic vector fields. One of our results says that if a formal power series converges along a family of vector fields, then it also converges along their commutators. Using this theorem and a result of T. Morimoto, we prove analyticity of formal solutions for a class of nonlinear singular PDEs. In the proofs we use results from control theory.
For n ∈ ℕ, L > 0, and p ≥ 1 let be the largest possible value of k for which there is a polynomial P ≢ 0 of the form , , , such that divides P(x). For n ∈ ℕ, L > 0, and q ≥ 1 let be the smallest value of k for which there is a polynomial Q of degree k with complex coefficients such that . We find the size of and for all n ∈ ℕ, L > 0, and 1 ≤ p,q ≤ ∞. The result about is due to Coppersmith and Rivlin, but our proof is completely different and much shorter even in that special...