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...

In this paper we characterize the semigroups of analytic functions in the unit disk which lead to semigroups of operators in the disk algebra. These characterizations involve analytic as well as geometric aspects of the iterates and they are strongly related to the classical theorem of Carathéodory about local connection and boundary behaviour of univalent functions.

In this paper we study the role that unimodular functions play in deciding the uniform boundedness of sets of continuous linear functionals on various function spaces. For instance, inner functions are a UBD-set in H∞ with the weak-star topology.

Let f be an analytic function on the unit disk . We define a generalized Hilbert-type operator ${}_{a,b}$ by ${}_{a,b}\left(f\right)\left(z\right)=\Gamma (a+1)/\Gamma (b+1){\int }_0^1\left(f\left(t\right){(1-t)}^b\right)/\left({(1-tz)}^{a+1}\right)dt$, where a and b are non-negative real numbers. In particular, for a = b = β, ${}_{a,b}$ becomes the generalized Hilbert operator ${}_{\beta }$, and β = 0 gives the classical Hilbert operator . In this article, we find conditions on a and b such that ${}_{a,b}$ is bounded on Dirichlet-type spaces $S^p$, 0 < p < 2, and on Bergman spaces $A^p$, 2 < p < ∞. Also we find an upper bound for the norm of the operator ${}_{a,b}$. These generalize...

For various $L^p$-spaces (1 ≤ p < ∞) we investigate the minimum number of complex-valued functions needed to generate an algebra dense in the space. The results depend crucially on the regularity imposed on the generators. For μ a positive regular Borel measure on a compact metric space there always exists a single bounded measurable function that generates an algebra dense in $L^p\left(\mu \right)$. For M a Riemannian manifold-with-boundary of finite volume there always exists a single continuous function that generates...

We present counterexamples to a conjecture of Böttcher and Silbermann on the asymptotic multiplicity of the Poisson kernel of the space $L^{\infty }\left(\partial D\right)$ and discuss conditions under which the Poisson kernel is asymptotically multiplicative.

Let Ω be an open simply connected proper subset of the complex plane and φ an analytic self map of Ω. If f is in the Hardy-Smirnov space defined on Ω, then the operator that takes f to f ⃘ φ is a composition operator. We show that for any Ω, analytic self maps that induce bounded Hermitian composition operators are of the form Φ(w) = aw + b where a is a real number. For ceratin Ω, we completely describe values of a and b that induce bounded Hermitian composition operators.

Let f be a holomorphic function of Carleman type in a bounded convex domain D of the plane. We show that f can be expanded in a series f = ∑ₙfₙ, where fₙ is a holomorphic function in Dₙ satisfying $su{p}_{z\in Dₙ}\left|fₙ\left(z\right)\right|\le C\varrho ⁿ$ for some constants C > 0 and 0 < ϱ < 1, and where (Dₙ)ₙ is a suitably chosen sequence of decreasing neighborhoods of the closure of D. Conversely, if f admits such an expansion then f is of Carleman type. The decrease of the sequence Dₙ characterizes the smoothness of f.

In this paper we give some sufficient conditions for the adjoint of a weighted composition operator on a Hilbert space of analytic functions to be hypercyclic.

For 0 < γ ≤ 1, let $\Lambda {⁺}_{\gamma }$ be the big Lipschitz algebra of functions analytic on the open unit disc which satisfy a Lipschitz condition of order γ on ̅. For a closed set E on the unit circle and an inner function Q, let $J_{\gamma }(E,Q)$ be the closed ideal in $\Lambda {⁺}_{\gamma }$ consisting of those functions $f\in \Lambda {⁺}_{\gamma }$ for which (i) f = 0 on E, (ii) $|f\left(z\right)-f\left(w\right)|=o\left(\right|z-w{|}^{\gamma })$ as d(z,E),d(w,E) → 0, (iii) $f/Q\in \Lambda {⁺}_{\gamma }$. Also, for a closed ideal I in $\Lambda {⁺}_{\gamma }$, let $E_I$ = z ∈ : f(z) = 0 for every f ∈ I and let $Q_I$ be the greatest common divisor of the inner parts of non-zero functions in I....