Topics in complex analysis (Q5919839)

The reader of this book is to bring to it knowledge of real analysis, integration theory, and functional analysis, but the world of complex variables is assumed to be virgin territory. In the course of its 150 pages the student masters the classical theory as well as such more recent areas as \(H^p\) spaces, and BMO. The mastery comes partially as a result of the orderly and efficient development of the material, but much more from working through its 239 exercises, most of which are supplementary to the text. Chapter 1 has Cauchy theory, power series, and residues, with the Phragmén-Lindelöf method appearing in the exercises. Mapping properties are covered in the next chapter. Included are the theory of univalent functions and the Picard theorems,via the Bloch-Schottky approach. Chapter 3 contains the approximation theorems of Runge and Mergelyan, analytic continuation, analytic functionals, and the Fourier-Laplace transform. Chapters 4 and 6 consider harmonic and subharmonic functions, including Green potentials and Riesz decomposition, and Fourier series. Chapter 5 has the title ``Zeros, growth, and value distribution''. Its central result is the defect relation, with Nevanlinna's fundamental theorems included as steps of the proof. Chapter 7 covers \(H^p\) spaces: factorization, invariant subspaces of \(H^2\), interpolation in \(H^\infty\), and Carleson measures. Ideals in \(H(\Omega)\) and Wolff's proof of the Corona theorem make up Chapter 8. The last chapter introduces bounded mean oscillation and contains a proof of Fefferman's theorem on the duality of \(H^1\) and BMO. This short volume is well suited for those mathematicians who hold the view that ``mathematics is problems''. Conscientious students can experience more growth and understanding from working through this text that from other books several times its size and cost.