Journal manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) Polynomial approximation in weighted Dirichlet spaces Javad Mashreghi · Thomas Ransford Received: date / Accepted: date Abstract We give an elementary proof of an analogue of Fej´er’s theorem in weighted Dirichlet spaces with superharmonic weights. This provides a simple way of seeing that polynomials are dense in such spaces. Keywords Dirichlet space · superharmonic weight · Fej´er theorem Mathematics Subject Classification (2010) 41A10 · 30E10 · 30H99 1 Introduction and statement of main result Let D be the open unit disk and T be the unit circle. We denote Hol(D) the set of all holomorphic functions on D, and by H2 the Hardy space on D. Given ζ ∈ D, we define Dζ to be the set of all f ∈ Hol(D) of the form f (z)= a + (z − ζ)g(z), 2 C D 2 where g ∈ H and a ∈ . In this case, we set ζ ( f ) := kgkH2 . We adopt the conven- D tion that, if f ∈ Hol( ) but f ∈/ Dζ , then Dζ ( f ) := ∞. Given a positive finite Borel measure µ on D, we define Dµ to be the set of all f ∈ Hol(D) such that Dµ ( f ) := Dζ ( f )dµ(ζ) < ∞. D Z JM supported by an NSERC grant. TR supported by grants from NSERC and the Canada Research Chairs program. J. Mashreghi D´epartement de math´ematiques et de statistique, Universit´eLaval, Qu´ebec City (Qu´ebec), Canada G1V 0A6 arXiv:2011.02844v1 [math.CV] 4 Nov 2020 E-mail:
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[email protected] 2 Javad Mashreghi, Thomas Ransford D We endow µ with the norm k·kDµ defined by 2 2 D k f kDµ := | f (0)| + µ ( f ).