An example of a fast-decreasing \((p,A)\)-lacunary function (Q1405680)

Let \(A>0\) and \(1<p<\infty.\) A function \(f(z) = \sum_{k=0}^{\infty} a_k z^{n_k}\) analytic on the unit disk is called \((p,A)\)-lacunary if \(n_k\geq Ak^p\), for all \(k\geq 0\). It is known that such functions cannot decay too fast as \(| z| \to 1-0\) along a segment. In ``Analytic functions smooth up to the boundary'' [Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1312 (1988; Zbl 0656.39029), Chapter 3] the author proved that the inequality \[ \limsup_{x\to 1-0} | f(x)| \exp\{(B(p,A)+\varepsilon) (1-x)^{-1/(p-1)}\}= +\infty \] holds for every \(\varepsilon>0.\) Here \(B(p,A)\) is a constant which depends on \(p\) and \(A\). This constant is defined in [ibid., Chapter 3] by two different formulas for the cases \(p\geq 2\) and \(1<p<2\). Examples in [4, Chapter 3] show that the first formula is sharp. In the present work an example is constructed which shows that the second formula is sharp, too: For every \(1<p<2\) there exists a \((p,A)\)-lacunary function which has an almost optimal decay as \(x\to 1-0\).