Banach-valued holomorphic functions on the maximal ideal space of \(H ^{\infty }\) (Q358820)

The author considers the Banach algebra \(H^\infty\) of bounded holomorphic functions on the unit disk \(\mathbb{D} \subset \mathbb{C}\) with pointwise multiplication and supremum norm. Among others results, the author establishes the vanishing of the cohomology for sheaves of germs of Banach-valued holomorphic functions defined on open subsets of the maximal ideal space \(M(H^\infty)\) of \(H^\infty\). As a consequence, the author obtains the solution of the second Cousin problem on \(M(H^\infty)\). He also proves Runge-type approximation theorems for such functions. Moreover, it is shown that \(H^\infty\) has the approximation property if and only if it has this property in some open neighbourhoods of the trivial Gleason parts of \(M(H^\infty)\). The developed technique is then applied to the study of the algebra \(H^\infty_{\mathrm{comp}}(A)\) of holomorphic functions on \(\mathbb{D}\) with relatively compact images in a commutative unital complex Banach algebra \(A\). It is shown that \(H^\infty_{\mathrm{comp}}(A)\) is homeomorphic to the direct product of the maximal ideal spaces of \(H^\infty\) and \(A\).