Strong asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials with varying measures and Hermite-Padé approximants

The strong asymptotic behaviour of orthogonal polynomials with respect to a general class of varying measures is given for the case of the unit circle and the real line. These results are used to obtain certain asymptotic relations for the polynomials involved in the construction of Hermite-Padé approximants of a Nikishin system of functions.