Exposedness in Hardy spaces of domains of finite connectivity (Q5951539)

The Hardy spaces \(H^1(\Omega)\) over domains of finite connectivity are under consideration in the present paper. The boundary properties of the unit ball of \(H^1(\Omega)\), well understood in the classical case \(\Omega=D\), the unit disk, are studied for general multiply connected domains. The authors show that most of the ``easier'' results for extreme and exposed points in \(H^1(D)\) can be carried over to \(H^1(\Omega)\), whereas some of the ``deeper''ones do not hold for the general case. For instance, the extreme points in \(H^1(D)\) are exactly outer functions of norm 1, but there are extreme functions in \(H^1(\Omega)\), that are not outer. The authors prove that the extreme functions \(f\in H^1(\Omega)\) such that \(|f|^{-1}\) is integrable with respect to the arc length on the boundary are exposed functions. The examples of extreme but not exposed points in \(H^1(\Omega)\) are given for special domains (real slit domains) \(\Omega\).