Polynomial approximation avoiding values in sets II

Abstract

We prove some results on when functions on compact sets $K \subset \mathbb C$ can be approximated by polynomials avoiding values in given sets. We also prove some higher dimensional analogues. In particular we prove that a continuous function from a compact set $K \subset \mathbb R^n$ without interior points to $\mathbb R^n$ can be uniformly approximated by a polynomial mapping avoiding values in any given countable set $A \subset \mathbb R^n$, giving a real $n$-dimensional analogue of a recent version of Lavrentiev's theorem of Andersson and Rousu. We also prove the same result for infinite dimensional Banach spaces.