scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2060667

Authors Peter Duren, Alexander P. Schuster

Publication date 18 March 2004

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to functions of a complex variable (30-02)

This is the second book devoted to the function theory of Bergman spaces in the unit disk. The other one is ``Theory of Bergman Spaces by \textit{H. Hedenmalm, B. Korenblum} and \textit{K. Zhu} (Springer, 2000; Zbl 0955.32003). Let \(D\) be the open unit disk in the complex plane and \(dA\) be an area measure on \(D\). For \(0< p< \infty\) the Bergman space \(A^p\) consists of analytic functions \(f\) in \(D\) such that \[ \| f\|^p_p= \int_D| f(z)|^p\,dA(z)< \infty. \] The book consists of an ``overview and nine chapters. There are no exercises, but the ``references covers all the major papers in the area in recent years. Chapter 1 describes the basic properties of the Bergman kernel function, including its conformal invariance and its connection with Green's function. The biharmonic Green function is also introduced in this chapter. Chapter 2 discusses the linear space properties related to the Bergman spaces. Main issues include the Bergman projection, the duality of Bergman spaces, linear isometries, and Carleson-type measures. This chapter also contains preliminary material about the pseudohyperbolic metric and sequences that are uniformly discrete in the pseudohyperbolic metric. Chapter 3 is titled ``Analytic Properties. Main results here include the maximam growth rate of functions in Bergman spaces, estimates of Taylor coefficients of Bergman space functions, coefficient multipliers, and a version of the maximum principle which states that for any \(1\leq p< \infty\) there exists a constant \(c\in (0,1)\) such that \(\| f\|_p\leq\| g\|_p\) whenever \(f\) and \(g\) are analytic functions in \(D\) satisfying \(| f(z)|\leq| g(z)|\) for \(c< | z|< 1\) (no proof is given of this result though). Chapters 4 and 5 concern zero sets for Bergman spaces. It is still an open problem to geometrically describe the zero sets for Bergman spaces. Various partial results are discussed in the two chapters, including Horowitz's work from the 1970's, Hedenmalm's approach to contractive zero divisors, and analytic continuation of the zero divisors through boundary points. But the deepest results in this area, due to Korenblum and Seip, are not included in the book. Chapters 6 and 7 are about sampling and interpolation in the Bergman spaces. Definitions, statements of the main results, and some important examples are contained in Chapter 6, while chapter 7 is devoted to the technical proof of Seip's theorems characterizing sampling and interpolating sequences in terms of certain densities. Chapters 8 and 9 deal with invariant subspaces of Bergman spaces. Important results here include a description of inner functions that are cyclic in Bergman spaces, the existence of invariant subspaces with higher index, an extension of the classical inner-outer factorization to the context of Bergman spaces, and a Hilbert space proof of a theorem of Aleman, Richter, and Sundberg which states that every invariant subspace \(I\) of \(A^2\) is generated by \(I\ominus zI\), which can be thought of as an analog of Beurling's classical theorem about invariant subspaces of the Hardy space \(H^2\).

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