Invariant subspaces in Bergman spaces and Hedenmalm's boundary value problem (Q1842623)

A function \(G\) in a Bergman space \(A^p\), \(0<p <\infty\), in the unit disk \(D\) is called \(A^p\)-inner if \(|G|^p -1\) annihilates all bounded harmonic functions in \(D\). Extending a recent result by Hedenmalm for \(p=2\), we show that the unique compactly-supported solution \(\Phi\) of the problem \(\Delta \Phi= \chi_D (|G|^p -1)\), where \(\chi_D\) denotes the characteristic function of \(D\) and \(G\) is an arbitrary \(A^p\)-inner function, is continuous in \(C\), and, moreover, has a vanishing normal derivative in a weak sense on the unit circle. This allows us to extend all of Hedenmalm's results concerning the invariant subspaces in the Bergman space \(A^2\) to a general \(A^p\)-setting.