Hankel operators and problems of best approximation of unbounded functions

For each function f, f VMO, there exists a unique function f₀, analytic in the circle and such that f–f₀=_f{gVMO_A}. We define the operator of best approximation (nonlinear) A, Af=f₀, fVMO, In the paper one considers the question of the preservation of a class under the action of the operator i.e. finding the classes X, X VMO, AX X. One investigates the classes X containing unbounded functions. It is proved that if P_X is the space of the symbols of the Hankel operators from a Banach space E of functions into the Hardy space H², then AX X. For E one can take almost any space.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 141, pp. 5–17, 1985.