Table of contents

Volume 57

Number 1, February 2002

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COMMUNICATIONS OF THE MOSCOW MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

MATHEMATICAL LIFE

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This is a survey of results on the local theory of real submanifolds of a complex space. Most of the results included here were obtained in Vitushkin's seminar at Moscow State University over the last fifteen years. The most important achievement is a technique for computing automorphisms, invariants, and classifications of real submanifolds, which includes as a main step the construction of a "good" model surface (an analogue of an osculating paraboloid in classical differential geometry).

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This survey reflects the current state of the theory of Padé approximants, that is, best rational approximations of power series. The main focus is on the so-called inverse problems of this theory, in which one must make deductions about analytic continuation of a given power series on the basis of the known asymptotic behaviour of the poles of some sequence of Padé approximants of this series. Row and diagonal sequences are studied from this point of view. Gonchar's and Rakhmanov's fundamental results of inverse nature are presented along with results of the author.