In this note we establish a vector-valued version of Beurling’s theorem (the Lax-Halmos theorem) for the polydisc. As an application of the main result, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the “weak” completion problem in .
We study the duals of the spaces of harmonic functions in the unit ball of with values in a Banach space X, belonging to the Bochner space with weight , denoted by . For 0 < α < p-1 we construct continuous projections onto providing a decomposition . We discuss the conditions on p, α and X for which and , 1/p+1/q = 1. The last equality is equivalent to the Radon-Nikodým property of X*.
It is shown how to embed the polydisk algebras (finite and infinite ones) into the disk algebra A(𝔻̅). As a consequence, one obtains uniform closed subalgebras of A(𝔻̅) which have arbitrarily prescribed stable ranks.
An error in the paper named in the title ibid., 42-4 (1992)875-889 is corrected.
It is shown that for each nonzero point x in the open unit disc D, there is a measure whose support is exactly ∂D ∪ {x} and that is also a weak*-exposed point in the set of representing measures for the origin on the disc algebra. This yields a negative answer to a question raised by John Ryff.
The Nevanlinna-Pick problem at the zeros of a Blaschke product B having a solution of norm smaller than one is studied. All its extremal solutions are invertible in the Douglas algebra D generated by B. If B is a finite product of sparse Blaschke products (Newman Blaschke products, Frostman Blaschke products) then so are all the extremal solutions. For a Blaschke product B a formula is given for the number C(B) such that if the NP-problem has a solution of norm smaller than C(B) then all its extremal...
We study the extreme and exposed points of the convex set consisting of representing measures of the disk algebra, supported in the closed unit disk. A boundary point of this set is shown to be extreme (and even exposed) if its support inside the open unit disk consists of two points that do not lie on the same radius of the disk. If its support inside the unit disk consists of 3 or more points, it is very seldom an extreme point. We also give a necessary condition for extreme points to be exposed...