We know that we can have at most L-1 local maxima and minima in the open interval 0<ω<π. In addition, ω=0 and π are also usually extrema. It is also maximum at ω for pass band and stop band frequencies. Thus the error function of a low pass filter has at most L+3 extremal frequencies.

The weighting function on the approximation error allows to choose the relative size of the errors in the different frequency bands. In particular, it is convenient to normalize W(ω) to unity in the stop band and set W(ω)=δ2/δ1 in the pass band.

If the filter has a anti-symmetric unit sample response, then we know that

Having the solution for P(ω), we can now compute the error function E(ω) from

According to Alternation theorem, a necessary and sufficient condition for P(ω) to be unique, best weighted chebyshev approximation, is that the error function E(ω) must exhibit at least L+2 extremal frequencies in S.

FX denotes an array of maximum size 10 that specifies the weight function in each band.

Let us consider the design of a low pass filter with the stop band edge frequency ωs and the ripple in the stop band is δ2, then from the general specifications of the chebyshev filter, in the stop band the filter frequency response should satisfy the condition

If the filter has a symmetric unit sample response, then we know that

If |E(ω)|≥δ for some frequencies on the dense set, then a new set of frequencies corresponding to the L+2 largest peaks of |E(ω)| are selected and computation is repeated.

In general, the filter designs that contain more than L+2 alternations or ripples are called as Extra ripple filters.