We investigate the Banach manifold consisting of complex ${}^r$ functions on the unit disc having boundary values in a given one-dimensional submanifold of the plane. We show that ∂/∂λ̅ restricted to that submanifold is a Fredholm mapping. Moreover, for any such function we obtain a relation between its homotopy class and the Fredholm index.

Zero sets and uniqueness sets of the classical Dirichlet space are not completely characterized yet. We define the concept of admissible functions for the Dirichlet space and then apply them to obtain a new class of zero sets for . Then we discuss the relation between the zero sets of and those of ${}^{\infty }$.

Motivated by the relationship between the area of the image of the unit disk under a holomorphic mapping $h$ and that of $zh$, we study various $L^2$ norms for $T_{\varphi }\left(h\right)$, where $T_{\varphi }$ is the Toeplitz operator with symbol $\varphi$. In Theorem , given polynomials $p$ and $q$ we find a symbol $\varphi$ such that $T_{\varphi }\left(p\right)=q$. We extend some of our results to the polydisc.