Approximate factorization in generalized Hardy spaces (Q930471)

A closed subspace \(H\) of \(L^2(\mu, X)\), where \(X\) is a complex separable Hilbert space, is said to have the approximate factorization property (AFP) if, for each \(f\in L^1(\mu)\) and \(\varepsilon >0\), there exist vectors \(x, y\in H\) as well as \(\| f- \langle x, y\rangle \| _1<\varepsilon\) such that \(\| x\| \leq \| f\| _1^{1/2}\) and \(\| y\| \leq \| f\| _1^{1/2}\). The author establishes a connection between the approximate factorization property of \(H\) and the spectral inclusion property for a class of Toeplitz-type operators \(T_\varphi\) defined by \(T_\varphi x= P_H(\varphi x)\), where \(P_H\) is the orthogonal projection and \(\varphi\in L^\infty(\mu)\). The paper contains several applications, for instance, to function algebras and to subnormal operators. Also, compactly supported planar measures such that the closure of analytic polynomials in \(L^2(\mu)\) has the AFP are studied and those measures \(\mu\) such that \(P^\infty(\mu)\), the \(w^*\)-closure in \(L^\infty(\mu)\) of all analytic polynomials, has the weak*-dense property, that is to say that the convex hull of the set \(\{| f| ^2: f\in P^\infty\}\) is \(w^*\)-dense in the positive cone of \(L^\infty(\mu)\), are also characterized.