We consider the problem of minimizing the distance ‖f − φ‖Lp(K), where K is a subset of the complex unit circle ∂D and φ ∈ C(K), subject to the constraint that f lies in the Hardy space H(D) and |f | ≤ g for some positive function g. This problem occurs in the context of filter design for causal LTI systems. We show that the optimization problem has a unique solution, which satisfies an extrema...