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Trigonometric polynomials are uniformly dense on the unit circle

Example

Let T:={zC:z=1} be the unit circle. A complex trigonometric polynomial on T is a finite Laurent sum zj=nnajzj, where nN and ajC. 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)=zw is the Euclidean metric (The Euclidean metric, convergence, Cauchy sequences, and continuity on the complex plane).

[L4]

For z=a+bi, z=abi 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=zw and z=z; and for every z,wC, zz=z2, zw=zw and z+wz+w (Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, zz=z2, 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
1.1

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

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1.2

For zT, [L5] gives zz=1, so uniqueness of the inverse in the field [L6] gives z1=z; consequently [L7] gives zr=(z)r for every natural r.

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2.1

Finite Laurent sums are closed under complex linear combinations and products, contain every constant and the coordinate function zz, 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 j0ajzj+j<0aj(z)j on T; conjugation satisfies zw=zw, because zw=zw and u2=uu=u2 by [L5]; and the identity urvr=(uv)k=0r1ukvr1k of [L7] with zw=zw and z+wz+w from [L5] gives urvrruv whenever u=v=1, so each Laurent sum is Lipschitz for the metric of [L3].

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3.1

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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