Criteria for membership of Bloch space and its subspace BMOA (Q2266083)

It is a well known principle in analysis that a function f belongs to a normed vector space V if and only if certain weighted averages of f form a bounded subset of V. This principle forms the central theme of this paper. First it is proved that an analytic function f is in the Bloch class B or in BMOA if and only if the Cesaro means of f are bounded in the appropriate norm. Two further criteria for a function f to belong to B are given. The first requires the uniform boundedness of a certain difference of Cesaro means; the second criterion expresses the same idea in terms of the values of f in the disc. The final section shows a connection between these results and the theory of Hankel operators on \(H^ 2\), and carries on the work begun by Bonsall and continued by the authors.