Duality, tangential interpolation, and Töplitz corona problems (Q607770)
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Duality, tangential interpolation, and Töplitz corona problems (English)
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3 December 2010
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The classical corona problem asks whether the set of point evaluations, for points in the open unit disk \(\mathbb D\), is dense in the maximal ideal space of \(H^\infty\). A famous result of L.\,Carleson shows that they are dense. Let \(\mathcal A\) be an abelian Banach algebra and let \(M\) be its maximal ideal space. A subset \(X\) of \(M\) is dense in \(M\) if and only if, for any finite set of functions \(f_1,\hdots,f_n\) such that \(\sum_{j=1}^n|f_j(x)|^2\geq \delta^2>0\) for \(x\in X\), there exists a set \(g_1,\hdots,g_n\in \mathcal{A}\) such that \(f_1g_1+\cdots+f_ng_n=1\). \textit{W. Arveson} [J. Funct. Anal. 20, 208--233 (1975; Zbl 0309.46053)] studied a related problem, replacing \(\sum_{j=1}^n |f_j(x)|^2\geq \delta^2\) by the operator theoretic condition \(\sum_{j=1}^n T_{f_j}T_{f_j}^*\geq \delta^2 I\), where \(T_f\) is the Toeplitz operator with symbol \(f\) acting on the Hardy space \(H^2\). Arveson showed that, under this assumption, there exists a set \(g_1,\hdots,g_n\in H^\infty\) such that \(\sum_{j=1}^n f_jg_j=1\) and \(\sum_{j=1}^n |g_j(z)|^2\leq \delta^{-2}\). In the paper under review, the authors show that a similar Toeplitz corona theorem holds for the case where \(\mathcal A\) is a weak*-closed subalgebra of \(H^\infty\). This result is accomplished by the use of a modification of the Arveson distance formula.
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distance formulae
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Hilbert module
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Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation
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Toeplitz corona problem
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