Boundary interpolation and proper holomorphic maps from the disc to the ball (Q1106985)

Let \(\Delta\) be the open unit disc in \({\mathbb{C}}\) and \(B_ M\) the open unit ball in \({\mathbb{C}}^ M,\) \(M\geq 2\). Let \(\phi\) be a positive continuous function on \(b\Delta\) and let \(F\subset b\Delta\) be a closed set of Lebesgue measure zero. The author proves the following result: Every continuous map f: \(F\to {\mathbb{C}}^ M \)which satisfies \(| f(s)| =\phi (s)\), \(s\in F\) has a continuous extension \(\tilde f:\) \({\bar \Delta}\to {\mathbb{C}}^ M \)which is holomorphic in \(\Delta\) and satisfies \(| \bar f(\xi)| =\phi (\xi)\), \(\xi\in b\Delta\). This is a special case (the domain is the disc) of an earlier result [the author, Math. Z. 194, 365-373 (1987; Zbl 0611.32021)], but with a different method which does not increase the dimension of the range space.