Generalized Carleson-Newman inner functions

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Abstract: We study a class of inner functions introduced by Gorkin, Mortini, and Nikolski, and motivated by Banach algebras and functional calculus applications. Answering their question, we produce a singular function that cannot be multiplied into this generalized Carleson-Newman class of inner functions (the class of functions satisfying the so called weak embedding property). Furthermore, we give elementary proofs for some results on these classes obtained earlier using arguments related to the Gelfand representation of Hinfty.


Let \(\Theta\) be an inner function in the unit disk \(\mathbb D\) with zero set \(Z(\Theta)\). This function is said to be a \textit{generalized Carleson-Newman inner function} if for every \(\varepsilon >0\) there exists \(\delta>0\) such that if \(|\Theta(z)|<\delta\) then \[ \rho(z, Z(\Theta))<\varepsilon\,, \quad z\in\mathbb D\,. \] Here, \(\rho\) is the pseudo-hyperbolic distance in the unit disk and \[ \rho(z, Z(\Theta))=\inf\big\{\rho(z,w): w\in Z(\Theta)\big\}\,. \] Equivalently, \(\Theta\) satisfies the so-called \textit{weak embedding property (WEP)} \[ \sup_{w\in\mathbb D: \rho(w, Z(\Theta))>\varepsilon} \sum_{z\in Z(\Theta)} \frac{(1-|z|^2)(1-|w|^2)}{|1-\overline z w|}<\infty\,,\quad \varepsilon >0\,. \] In this paper, the author offers more information about generalized Carle\-son-Newman inner functions. In particular, he answers in the negative a question posed in [\textit{P. Gorkin} et al., J. Funct. Anal. 255, No. 4, 854--876 (2008; Zbl 1161.46028)] by showing that there are inner functions that do not divide generalized Carleson-Newman inner functions. He also provides new proofs of different facts about generalized Carleson-Newman inner functions that do not use notions and results pertaining to the space of the maximal ideals of \(H^\infty\).











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