1. Introduction and Preliminaries
Let denote the complex plane, be a bounded Jordan region (without loss of generality, we will assume that ; ; and . For and we set the following: . Let be the univalent conformal mapping of onto such that and ; . For let denote the exterior level curve of L, denote the inner region of , and denote the outer region of .
Let us denote
which is the set of all complex-coefficient algebraic polynomials of degree at most
n, where
.
The distance from a point
to a set
, denoted by
, is defined as
Let
be a fixed sequence of distinct points ordered in the positive direction along
L, without a loss of generality. Let
be a fixed constant such that
. Assume that the parameter
satisfies
for all
. Let
be a measurable function satisfying the inequality
for some constant
depending only on
G and
h. Under these assumptions, we define the generalized Jacobi weight function as
Let
denote the two-dimensional Lebesgue measure. Given an arbitrary Jordan region
G and a real number
, we present
and, when
is rectifiable,
For any
, the Bernstein–Walsh Lemma [
1] states that the following inequality holds:
Also, in [
2], a similar inequality of (
4) for the space
is obtained as follows:
In [
3] (Th. 1.1), an analogous estimate was studied for the
–norm,
for an arbitrary Jordan region, and it was obtained that, for any
and arbitrary
, the following estimate,
In [
4] the case was considered, where the norm
on the right-hand side (
4) is replaced by
which leads to a new version of the Bernstein–Walsh lemma: if the curve
is quasiconformal and rectifiable, then there exists a constant
depending only on
such that
holds for every
On the other hand, using the mean value theorem, for an arbitrary Jordan region
G, any polynomial
, and any
, we can find that
In particular, estimates of the form (
7) for orthonormal polynomials
, over a region
and a specific weight function
h were investigated in [
5] (Th.2.1), [
6] (Th.5,
), [
7] (Th.1,
), and others. Similar estimates to (
7) were studied, and estimates in the space
were obtained for any point
in the following form:
where
and
are constants independent of
z and depending on the properties of the region
G and the behavior of the weight function
By combining (
6) and (
7), we obtain an estimation on the growth of
in
.
Thus, as can be seen from (
6) and (
7), to study the behavior of the polynomials and their derivatives
in whole
, it is also necessary to know the behavior of these derivatives at the points of
This means that we need to represent the whole plane as the union of a finite closed region and a region “symmetric to it with respect to the curve
L”, for example,
, and then study the behavior of
, in each of these regions separately.
“Symmetry with respect to the boundary” can naturally be viewed as a “generalization” of the concepts of symmetry with respect to a line and a circle. Just as there is symmetry with respect to a line or a circle, symmetry can also be defined with respect to a given smooth curve (for example, a quasiconformal reflection; see, for example, [
8] (p. 100)). Since every piecewise smooth curve
L can be viewed as a quasiconformal (see, for example, [
8] (p. 81), Corollary 1), then there is a quasiconformal reflection with respect to it, i.e., a quasiconformal mapping that takes
G to
and
to
G and leaves the points of
L fixed. Such a mapping can be regarded as a “symmetry” with respect to the curve
It is well known that if
L is quasiconformal, then every level curve
is also quasiconformal for each
In this context, we study the growth of polynomials in regions
and
, which are mutually symmetric with respect to a given curve
for
. In the case of
, one can also define symmetric regions with respect to a curve with zero angles, but using reflections with respect to a finite number of smooth arcs that make up the curve
L results in symmetries.
In [
9] (Th. 5, 6), the growth of the modulus of the derivative (
) of polynomials in unbounded regions with zero and non-zero angles on the boundary was studied, and the results were obtained using a recurrence formula. Further analysis of the results showed that on the right-hand side of the estimates, the value
yields a strong growth of the modulus of the derivative of the polynomial. In the present paper, instead of a recurrence formula, another method was found, and a “weaker” growth of the modulus of the derivative of the polynomial was obtained, and the dependence of the growth on the order of the derivative
was indicated.
In the present study, we extend previous investigations on the problem of obtaining pointwise estimates for higher-order derivatives of the modulus
within some unbounded regions characterized by interior zero and exterior non-zero angles. Our goal is to derive estimates in the following form:
where
as
, depends on the properties of
G and
h.
Similar results of type (
8) for some norms and various unbounded regions were obtained by N.A. Lebedev, P.M. Tamrazov, and V.K. Dzyadyk (see, for example, [
10] (p. 383) and references therein). A number of studies considered the case
with various values of
and for various regions. Such studies include the works of [
11] for regions with piecewise smooth boundaries having interior angles and for
, as well as others.
For derivatives of order
, estimates similar to those given in (
8) have been studied in various papers. In particular, ref. [
12] studies the cases of
for regions with piecewise smooth boundaries without cusps; ref. [
9] studies the cases of
for regions with a piecewise smooth boundary having both zero and non-zero interior angles and others. These results are often based on a recursive formula approach, where the bound for each order of the derivative is derived from the bounds with lower orders, which requires extensive computation. However, in the current work, a direct method is used to obtain estimates of type (
8) without relying on the recurrence formula. As a result, estimates for the growth of the modulus of polynomials that are much better than those in the above mentioned works are found in an unbounded region.
Secondly, to finalize the analysis of the growth of
in the whole complex plane, it is necessary to establish an inequality analogous to the Bernstein–Markov–Nikol’skii inequality in the regions under consideration, as shown below.
where
,
is a constant that depends on the properties of
G and the weight function
h, in general.
The investigation of inequalities of type (
9) began with the foundational works in [
13,
14,
15]. Subsequently, similar research has been explored in numerous studies. Numerous studies have addressed these inequalities for
within a range of function spaces, including those by [
16], [
17] (pp. 122–133), [
18,
19,
20,
21], and references therein. A more detailed study on this topic has been made by [
22] (
for
and regions with a piecewise smooth boundary with interior cusps; [
11] (
for
and regions with piecewise smooth boundaries containing interior angles; [
23] (
for
and regions with piecewise Dini-smooth boundaries having interior zero angles); and others.
In all the cited works, when assessing the growth of the modulus of a polynomial and its derivatives of order , an important role was played by the explicit dependence of the value of on the right-hand side of the angle formed between the boundary arcs at the points where the weight function has a zero of order or a pole of order This work also indicates the dependence of the value of on the geometry of a given region and on the weight function.
Thus, by combining the estimates (
8) and (
9), we find the growth of the
m-th derivatives
on the whole complex plane as follows:
where
and
are constants that do not depend on
n or
but depend on the properties of
G and
h.
2. Definitions and Notations
Throughout this paper,
are positive constants, and
are sufficiently small positive constants (generally, they are different in different relations). These constants generally depend on
G and inessential parameters for the argument. Otherwise, the dependence will be explicitly stated. For any
and
the notation
means
.
Definition 1 ([
24])
. The Jordan curve (or arc) L is called K-quasiconformal () if there is a K-quasiconformal mapping f of the region such that is a circle (or line segment).Let denote the set of all sense-preserving plane homeomorphisms f of the region such that is a circle (a line segment), and letwhere is the maximal dilatation of Then L is a quasiconformal curve if and L is a K-quasiconformal curve if A curve L is called a quasiconformal if it is a K-quasiconformal for some Let
denote the natural representation of
L.
Definition 2. We say that a Jordan curve or arc L is smooth if has a continuous tangent at every point The class of such smooth curves or arcs is denoted by . Then we write such that
According to the “three-point” criterion [
8] (p. 100), every piecewise smooth curve (without any cusps) or arc is quasiconformal. Moreover, according to [
24], we have the following:
Corollary 1. If then L is quasiconformal for arbitrary small
We say that a bounded Jordan curve (or arc) is locally smooth at the point if there exists a closed subarc ℓ containing z such that every open subarc of ℓ containing z is smooth.
Next, we introduce a certain category of regions enclosed by a piecewise smooth boundary curve, where the connecting arcs form interior angles with zero or non-zero exterior angles.
For a Jordan region
G with boundary
, let
denote a finite, ordered set of distinct points placed along
L, which, without loss of generality, are assumed to follow the positive orientation. We define each arc
as the segment of the boundary connecting the consecutive points
and
, where the indexing is taken as modulo
, i.e.,
.
Definition 3. We say that a Jordan region if is the union of finitely many smooth arcs connected at points such that L has exterior (with respect to ) angles at the corner points where two arcs and intersect, and L is locally smooth at .
Without loss of generality, we assume that these points on the curve are located in the positive direction such that has exterior angles at the points , and interior zero angles (i.e., —interior cusps) at the points .
It is clear from Definition 3 that each region may have exterior non-zero angles at the points and interior zero angles () at the the points If then the region G does not have such angles; in this case we will write the following: ; if then G has only exterior non-zero angles; in this case we will write ; if and then G has only interior zero angles; in this case we will write
Moreover, throughout this paper, we will assume that the
points defined in (
1) coincide with the
points specified in Definition 3.
To simplify the exposition and avoid cumbersome calculations, we will take without a loss of generality. After this assumption, we have the region which has the exterior non-zero angle at the point and the interior zero angle at the point . Note that the notation “” means that the region G has two exterior non-zero angles at the point
For , let us assume that
Let
Without loss of generality, we will assume that
For
and
let us set the following:
3. Main Results
We begin by setting up the notational framework required for both the formulation of the main results and the subsequent analysis.
In all theorems and corollaries throughout this section, the weight function
is defined by (
1) for the case
. Also we assume that
and
, where
is specified individually in each result. Now let us start formulating the new results.
Theorem 1. Let and for some . Suppose the weight function h is defined by (1) with . Then, for every polynomial , all and , the following estimate holds:where is a constant independent of n and and the parameters and are defined in (11). As Theorem 1 shows, the estimation on the right-hand side for explicitly expresses the dependence of the growth in the unbounded region’s () modulus of the polynomial and its m-th derivatives on the behavior of the boundary angles and the properties of the weight function. Thus, the dependence of the growth of the polynomial’s modulus and its m-th derivatives on the geometry of the given region and weight is formulated.
As a consequence, we can consider cases in which the region has either zero or non-zero angles at both points.
Corollary 2. Let and for some parameters . Suppose the weight function h is defined by (1) with . Then, for every polynomial , all and , we havewhere is a constant independent of n and The sharpness of the estimations (
12) for
and (
13) for
and
can be discussed by comparing them with the following:
Remark 1 ([
25] (Th.17))
. For any there exists a polynomial a region , and a compact subset such thatwhere is a constant independent of n and Corollary 3. Let and . Then, for every polynomial , all , and , we havewhere is a constant independent of n and Remark 2. Note that in [9] (Th. 5, 6), results similar to those in Theorem 1 and Corollaries 2 and 3 were obtained for , as well as those using a recurrence formula. The results obtained in Theorem 1 and Corollaries 2 and 3, using a different method without a recurrence formula, extend the corresponding results in [9] (Th. 5, 6) to the cases and . Furthermore, in [9] (Th. 5, 6), the right-hand side contains the quantity , whereas in the results obtained here, the right-hand side contains , which significantly improves the corresponding estimate in [9]. Now, we can state the uniform estimate of
for
Theorem 2. Let and for some parameter . Then, for every polynomial , all , and arbitrarily small , the following estimate holds:where is a constant independent of z and the numbers and are defined as in (11) andand the parameters , and are defined in (11). Similar to the above, Theorem 2 also demonstrates the dependence of the growth of the modulus of a polynomial and its m-th derivatives on the closure of a bounded region on the behavior of the boundary angles and the properties of the weight function. Thus, the dependence of the growth of the modulus of a polynomial and its m-th derivatives on the geometry of a given region and the weight is also explicitly stated.
We can separately consider the cases where the
L curve has the same type of angle at both points: exterior non-zero or interior zero angles. In this case, from Theorem 2, we obtain the following:
Corollary 4. Under the conditions of Theorem 2, the relation (15) is satisfied for for whereand and are defined as in (11). Corollary 5. Under the conditions of Theorem 2, the relation (15) is satisfied for if we takeand is defined as in (11). The following fact demonstrates the accuracy of the estimates (
15)–(
17) in some special cases.
Remark 3 - 1.
For any there exists a polynomial such that the inequalityis true for the unit disk B and the weight function . - 2.
For any there exists a polynomial such that the inequalityis true for the unit disk B and the weight function .
According to (
4) (applied to the polynomial
), the estimate (
15) and their corollaries ((
16) and (
17)) are also valid for
with a different constant. Therefore, by combining the corresponding estimates (
15)–(
17) (for the
) with the estimates (
12) and (
13), we obtain an estimate for the growth of
in the whole complex plane.
Now, let us present the corresponding statements. When Theorem 1 is combined with Theorem 2, we find the following:
Theorem 3. Let and for some parameter . Then, for every polynomial , all , and arbitrarily small , the following estimate holds:where is a constant independent of z and and are defined as in (12) and (15), respectively. By combining Corollaries 2 and 3 with Corollaries 4 and 5, respectively, we obtain the following:
Corollary 6. Let and for some parameters . Then, for every polynomial , all , and arbitrarily small , the following estimate holds:where is a constant independent of z and and are defined as in (13) and (16), respectively. Corollary 7. Let and Then, for every polynomial , all , and , we havewhere is a constant independent of z and and are defined as in (14) and (17), respectively. Thus, in Theorem 3 and Corollaries 6 and 7, we provided precise estimates for the growth of the modulus of the polynomial itself and its
m-th derivatives for a bounded and unbounded region with a piecewise smooth curve. The influence of the boundary angle and the degree of the “zero” or “pole” of the weight function on this growth is also indicated. This result extends and significantly refines the corresponding result in [
9]. The method used allows us to study similar problems in various regions and spaces without resorting to a recurring formula.