In the present note, we characterize the essential set of a function algebra defined on a compact Hausdorff space $X$ in terms of its orthogonal measures on $X$.

Assume $f_1,...,f_N$ a finite set of functions in $H^{\infty }\left(D\right)$, the space of bounded analytic functions on the open unit disc. We give a sufficient condition on a function $f$ in $H^{\infty }\left(D\right)$ to belong to the norm-closure of the ideal $I(f_1,...,f_N)$ generated by $f_1,...,f_N$, namely the property$$\left|f\right(z\left)\right|\le \alpha \left(\right|f_1\left(z\right)|+...+|f_N\left(z\right)\left|\right)\text{for}z\in D$$for some function $\alpha$ : ${\mathbf{R}}_{+}\to {\mathbf{R}}_{+}$ satisfying ${lim}_{t\to 0}\alpha \left(t\right)/t=0.$ The main feature in the proof is an improvement in the contour-construction appearing in L. Carleson’s solution of the corona-problem. It is also shown that the property$$\left|f\left(z\right)\right|\le C\underset{1\le j\le N}{max}\left|f_j\left(z\right)\right|\text{for}z\in D$$for some constant $C$, does not necessary imply that $f$ is...

Let D be the open unit disc and μ a positive bounded measure on [0,1]. Extending results of Mateljević/Pavlović and Shields/Williams we give Banach-space descriptions of the classes of all harmonic (holomorphic) functions f: D → ℂ satisfying ${ʃ}_0^1({ʃ}_0^{2\pi }|f\left(r{e}^{i\phi }\right){{|}^{p}d\phi )}^{q/p}d\mu \left(r\right)<\infty$.

The class ω(A) of ideals consisting of topological zero divisors of a commutative Banach algebra A is studied. We prove that the maximal ideals of the class ω(A) are of codimension one.

One computes the joint and essential joint spectra of a pair of multiplication operators with bounded analytic functions on the Hardy spaces of the unit ball in ${ℂ}^n$.

We present several notions of joint spectral radius of mutually commuting elements of a locally convex algebra and prove that all of them yield the same value in case the algebra is pseudo-complete. This generalizes a result proved by the author in 1993 for elements of a Banach algebra.

Let A be a uniform algebra on X and σ a probability measure on X. We define the Hardy spaces $H^p\left(\sigma \right)$ and the $H^p\left(\sigma \right)$ interpolating sequences S in the p-spectrum ${ℳ}_p$ of σ. We prove, under some structural hypotheses on A and σ, that if S is a “dual bounded” Carleson sequence, then S is $H^s\left(\sigma \right)$-interpolating with a linear extension operator for s < p, provided that either p = ∞ or p ≤ 2. In the case of the unit ball of ℂⁿ we find, for instance, that if S is dual bounded in $H^{\infty }\left(\right)$ then S is $H^p\left(\right)$-interpolating with a linear...