Degree and holomorphic extendibility (Q2866656)

The author proves the following interesting generalization of Globevnik's theorem on holomorphic extensions of continuous functions. Let \(D\subset\mathbb C\) be a bounded domain such that \(D=\text{int}\overline D\) and \(\overline D\) is finitely connected. Let \(f\in\mathcal C(\partial D)\). Then \(f\) extends to a function of class \(\mathcal A(D):=\mathcal C(\overline D)\cap\mathcal O(D)\) if and only if \(\deg(f+g)\geq0\) for every \(g\in\mathcal A(D)\) such that \(f+g\) has no zero on \(\partial D\).