On the stable analytic continuation with a condition of uniform boundedness

It is shown that, if h(x) is any continuous function defined on some interval [−a,b]⊆(−1,1) of the real axis, then, in general, its best L2 approximant, in the class of functions holomorphic and bounded by unity in the unit disk of the complex plane, is a finite Blaschke product. An upper bound is placed on the number of factors of the latter and a method for its construction is given. The paper contains a discussion of the use of these results in performing a stable analytic continuation of a set of data points under a condition of uniform boundedness, as well as some numerical examples.