On the Uniform and Simultaneous Approximations of Functions

We consider the relation between the simultaneous approximation of two functions and the uniform approximation to one of these functions. In particular, F1 and F2 are continuous functions on a closed interval [a,b], S is an n-dimensional Chebyshev subspace of C [a,b] and s1* & s2* are the best uniform approximations to F1 and F2 from S respectively. The characterization of the best approximation solution is used to show that, under some restrictions on the point set of alternations of F1−s1* and F2−s2*, s1* or s2* is also a best A(1) simultaneous approximation to F1 and F2 from S with F1≥F2 and n=2.