Cyclicity in Dirichlet-type spaces and extremal polynomials II: Functions on the bidisk (Q2352722)

Within the class of weighted Dirichlet spaces \(D_\alpha\) on the bidisk, the authors investigate the problem of characterizing those functions \(f\in D_\alpha\) for which there is a sequence \((p_n)_n\) of polynomials in two variables such that \(||p_nf-1||_\alpha\to 0\). Such functions \(f\) are called cyclic. They unveil a polynomial \(f\in D_\alpha\) having no zeros in the (open) bidisk and which is not cyclic for \(\alpha>1/2\), in contrast to the one-variable case. Distance estimates (involving the expression \(||pf-1||_\alpha\)) are given whenever \(p\) is a polynomial of degree less than a fixed number.