We design convergent multipoint Pade interpolation schemes to Cauchy
transforms of non-vanishing complex densities with respect to Jacobi-type
weights on analytic arcs, under mild smoothness assumptions on the density. We
rely on our earlier work for the choice of the interpolation points, and dwell
on the Riemann-Hilbert approach to asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials
introduced by Kuijlaars, McLaughlin, Van Assche, and Vanlessen in the case of a
segment.
For all n large enough, we show uniqueness of a critical point in best
rational approximation of degree n, in the L^2-sense on the unit circle, to
functions f, where f is a sum of a Cauchy transform of a complex measure \mu
supported on a real interval included in (-1,1), whose Radon-Nikodym derivative
with respect to the arcsine distribution on its support is Dini-continuous,
non-vanishing and with and argument of bounded variation, and of a rational
function with no poles on the support of \mu.