Cyclic inner functions in the Bergman spaces and weak outer functions in \(H^ p\), \(0<p<1\) (Q2266785)

The author considers a general class of Banach spaces B of analytic functions in the open unit disc \({\mathbb{D}}\) fulfilling 5 axioms. The main example of such a Banach space is the Bergman space \(A^ n_{\alpha}\) (1\(\leq p\leq \infty\), \(\alpha >-1)\) of all analytic functions in \({\mathbb{D}}\) with norm \[ \| f\|_{p,\alpha}:=(\iint_{{\mathbb{D}}}| f(z)|^ p(1-| z|)^{\alpha}dxdy)^{1/p}<\infty. \] A function \(f\in B\) is called B-cyclic, if \([f]:=\{Pf:\) P is a polynomial\(\}\) is dense in D and an inner function q is called B-inner, if q divides any inner function \(q_ 0\) with the property \(q_ 0\in [q].\) The main result of the first two sections of the paper gives a characterization of the B-cyclic and B-inner functions. Using these functions the author characterizes the so called weak inner and weak outer functions in the space \(H^ p\) where \(0<p<1\) and answers here with some questions of \textit{P. L. Duren}, \textit{B. W. Romberg} and \textit{A. L. Shields} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 238, 32-60 (1969; Zbl 0176.431)]. The space B is here the so-called containing Banach space of \(H^ p.\) In the last section the author shows that for a large class of singular inner functions \(S_{\mu}\), the quotient spaces \(H^ p/S_{\mu}H^ p\) contain compact convex sets with no extreme points. This partially answers a question of \textit{J. H. Shapiro} [Banach spaces anal. Funct., Proc. Pelczynski Conf., Kent. 1976, Lect. Notes Math. 604, 107-124 (1977; Zbl 0376.46015)]. For related results in case of the Dirichlet space of analytic functions the interested reader is referred to the paper of \textit{L. Brown} and \textit{A. Shields} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 285, 269-304 (1984; Zbl 0517.30040)]. In axiom No.5 of the paper under review there is a typographical error, it should read \(\| z^ n\| \leq n^{-\beta}\) \((n=2,3,...)\).