A variational approach to the theory of multipoint Padé approximants

Abstract
The existence and bounding properties of the various multipoint Padé approximants, and their complements, with respect to functions representable by series of Stieltjes, are established by using a generalized Hylleraas variational principle. The main discussion uses the phraseology of a typical frequency dependent polarizability function, and in an appendix the results are simply generalized.