In mathematics, the Favard constant, also called the Akhiezer–Krein–Favard constant, of order r is defined as This constant is named after the French mathematician Jean Favard, and after the Soviet mathematicians Naum Akhiezer and Mark Krein.
This constant is used in solutions of several extremal problems, for example
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