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Trigonometric polynomials are uniformly dense on the unit circle

Example

Let T:={z∈C:∣z∣=1} be the unit circle. A complex trigonometric polynomial on T is a finite Laurent sum z⟼∑j=−nnajzj, where n∈N and aj∈C. The complex trigonometric polynomials are uniformly dense in C(T,C).

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The unit circle T with the subspace topology from the usual complex metric, and the algebra T of complex trigonometric polynomials on it.

[L1]

Every unital point-separating self-adjoint complex function algebra on a compact Hausdorff space is uniformly dense in the full complex continuous-function space (Complex Stone–Weierstrass dichotomy for separating self-adjoint algebras; the unital case is dense).

[L2]

A complex function algebra is self-adjoint when it contains each pointwise conjugate, unital when it contains all constants, and point-separating when it distinguishes every distinct pair (Self-adjoint complex function algebras, unitality, and point separation).

[L3]

Under C=R2, dC(z,w)=∣z−w∣ is the Euclidean metric (The Euclidean metric, convergence, Cauchy sequences, and continuity on the complex plane).

[L4]

For z=a+bi, z‾=a−bi and ∣z∣=a2+b2 (Real and imaginary parts, complex conjugation, and modulus).

[L5]

Complex conjugation is a real-field automorphism with z+w‾=z‾+w‾, zw‾=z‾ w‾ and z‾‾=z; and for every z,w∈C, zz‾=∣z∣2, ∣zw∣=∣z∣∣w∣ and ∣z+w∣≤∣z∣+∣w∣ (Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, zz‾=∣z∣2, and modulus is definite, multiplicative, and subadditive).

[L7]

Natural powers satisfy z0=1 and zn+1=znz, while negative integer powers of nonzero z are powers of its inverse (Integer powers in the complex field).

[L9]

A compact subset of a metric space is compact as a topological subspace of its metric topology, and conversely (For a metric space with its metric topology, compactness in the topological sense is compactness in the metric sense, and the two notions of compact subset coincide, clause 2).

[L10]

Every metric space is Hausdorff: distinct points are separated by disjoint open balls (Distinct points of a metric space have disjoint balls around them).

Verification

technique · direct
1.1L3L4L5L8L9L10

The reverse triangle inequality from [L5] makes z↦∣z∣ continuous, so T={∣z∣=1} is closed; it is bounded. Thus [L3], [L8], and [L9] make T compact, and [L10] makes it Hausdorff.

1.2L5L6L7algebra

For z∈T, [L5] gives zz‾=1, so uniqueness of the inverse in the field [L6] gives z−1=z‾; consequently [L7] gives z−r=(z‾)r for every natural r.

2.1step 1.2L2L3L5L7algebra

Finite Laurent sums are closed under complex linear combinations and products, contain every constant and the coordinate function z↦z, and therefore separate points; conjugating such a sum conjugates its coefficients and reverses its exponents by step 1.2, so T is self-adjoint. Every member of T is also continuous, so T is a subalgebra of C(T,C): step 1.2 rewrites a Laurent sum as ∑j≥0ajzj+∑j<0aj(z‾)−j on T; conjugation satisfies ∣z‾−w‾∣=∣z−w∣, because z‾−w‾=z−w‾ and ∣u‾∣2=u‾ u=∣u∣2 by [L5]; and the identity ur−vr=(u−v)∑k=0r−1ukvr−1−k of [L7] with ∣zw∣=∣z∣∣w∣ and ∣z+w∣≤∣z∣+∣w∣ from [L5] gives ∣ur−vr∣≤r∣u−v∣ whenever ∣u∣=∣v∣=1, so each Laurent sum is Lipschitz for the metric of [L3].

3.1step 1.1step 2.1L1∎

The algebra T is a unital, point-separating, self-adjoint complex function algebra on the compact Hausdorff circle from step 1.1, so [L1] makes it uniformly dense in C(T,C).

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