Sums of holomorphic selfmaps of the unit disk. II. (Q643197)

Denote by \(\overline{\mathbb{D}}= \{z\in\mathbb{C}:|z|\leq 1\}\) the closed unit disc in \(\mathbb{C}\). This paper proves the following theorem: For any real \(p\geq 1\), \(0\leq c\leq 1\) and \(z\in\overline{\mathbb{D}}\), we have \[ \Biggl|\Biggl({1+ z\over 2}\Biggr)+ c\Biggl({1-z\over 2}\Biggr)^p\Biggr|\leq 1. \] The theorem extends previous work of the first author, who, along with other collaborators, produced related results. References to applications of this result and similar ones in isometric interpolation problems as well as composition operators on various spaces of analytic functions are provided.