On quotients of holomorphic functions in the disc with boundary regularity conditions (Q1105074)

Let D be the unit disc in the complex plane. Denote the Banach algebra of all functions continuous on \(\bar D\) by A(D), the Frechet algebra of all functions holomorphic in D with derivative extending continuously to \(\bar D\) by \(A^{\infty}(D)\), and the Banach algebra of all functions holomorphic in D satisfying a Lipschitz condition of order 1 by \(\Lambda_ 1(D).\) Characterizations are given of functions holomorphic in D that can be written as quotients of functions in A(D), \(A^{\infty}(D)\) and \(\Lambda_ 1(D)\) respectively with nonvanishing denominators. The author deduces that a function f in \(\Lambda_ 1(D)\), which does not vanish in D, has an associated function g in \(\Lambda_ 1(D)\) with the same zero set as f in \(\bar D\) such that \(fg\in A^{\infty}(D)\).