Envelopes of holomorphy and holomorphic discs

The envelope of holomorphy of an arbitrary domain in a two-dimensional Stein manifold is identified with a connected component of the set of equivalence classes of analytic discs immersed into the Stein manifold with boundary in the domain. This implies, in particular, that for each of its points the envelope of holomorphy contains an embedded (non-singular) Riemann surface (and also an immersed analytic disc) passing through this point with boundary contained in the natural embedding of the original domain into its envelope of holomorphy. Moreover, it says, that analytic continuation to a neighbourhood of an arbitrary point of the envelope of holomorphy can be performed by applying the Continuity Principle once. Another corollary concerns representation of certain elements of the fundamental group of the domain by boundaries of analytic discs. A particular case is the following. Given a contact three-manifold with Stein filling, any element of the fundamental group of the contact manifold whose representatives are contractible in the filling can be represented by the boundary of an immersed analytic disc.     

Envelopes of holomorphy of Jordan curves in ℂn

A comprehensive answer is given to two related questions: (i) Can continuous functions be approximated by holomorphic ones on Jordan curves in ?ⁿ (A.G. Vitushkin, 1964)? (ii) Is any Jordan curve in ?ⁿ holomorphically convex (E.L. Stout, 1970)?     

Spectra of algebras of holomorphic functions of bounded type

We prove that if U is a balanced H_b (U)-domain of holomorphy in Tsirelson's space then the spectrum of H_b (U) is identified with U. We derive theorems of Banach Stone type for algebras of holomorphic functions and algebras of holomorphic germs.     

The PDE-preserving operators on nuclearly entire functions of bounded type

The PDE-preserving operators O on the space of nuclearly entire functions of bounded type H_Nb(E) on a Banach space E are characterized. An operator is PDE-preserving when it preserves homogenous solutions to homogeneous convolution equations. We establish a one to one correspondence between O and a set Σ of sequences of entire functionals, i.e. exponential type functions. In this way, algebraic structures on Σ, such as ring structures, can be carried over to O and vice versa. In particular, it follows that O is a non-commutative ring (algebra) with unity with respect to composition and the convolution operators form a commutative subring (subalgebra). We discuss range and kernel properties, for the operators in O, and characterize the projectors (onto polynomial spaces) in O by determining the corresponding elements in Σ. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Homomorphisms and composition operators on algebras of analytic functions of bounded type

Let U and V be convex and balanced open subsets of the Banach spaces X and Y, respectively. In this paper we study the following question: given two Fréchet algebras of holomorphic functions of bounded type on U and V, respectively, that are algebra isomorphic, can we deduce that X and Y (or X^* and Y^*) are isomorphic? We prove that if X^* or Y^* has the approximation property and H_wu(U) and H_wu(V) are topologically algebra isomorphic, then X^* and Y^* are isomorphic (the converse being true when U and V are the whole space). We get analogous results for H_b(U) and H_b(V), giving conditions under which an algebra isomorphism between H_b(X) and H_b(Y) is equivalent to an isomorphism between X^* and Y^*. We also obtain characterizations of different algebra homomorphisms as composition operators, study the structure of the spectrum of the algebras under consideration and show the existence of homomorphisms on H_b(X) with pathological behaviors.     

On Fourier transforms of functions of bounded type in tubular domains

We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition in terms of the Fourier transform under which an analytic function of bounded type in a tubular domain belongs to the Hardy class H ¹(?₊ ⁿ ).     

Entire functions of exponential type bounded on the real axis and fourier transforms of distributions with bounded supports

On the complexification of the dual spaceE′ of a real Banach spaceE′ of infinite dimension, there is an entire complex valued function of exponential type, bounded onE′, hence slowly increasing onE′, which is not the Fourier transform of any distribution with bounded support onE. Partially supported by the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rio de Janeiro, GB, Brasil and by the National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, USA. Attendance at the International Symposium on Partial Differential Equations and the Geometry of Normed Spaces was possible in part thanks to a grant from CAPES, Brasil.     

Holomorphy types and spaces of entire functions of bounded type on banach spaces

In this paper spaces of entire functions of Θ-holomorphy type of bounded type are introduced and results involving these spaces are proved. In particular, we “construct an algorithm” to obtain a duality result via the Borel transform and to prove existence and approximation results for convolution equations. The results we prove generalize previous results of this type due to B. Malgrange: Existence et approximation des équations aux dérivées partielles et des équations des convolutions. Annales de l’Institute Fourier (Grenoble) VI, 1955/56, 271–355; C. Gupta: Convolution Operators and Holomorphic Mappings on a Banach Space, Séminaire d’Analyse Moderne, 2, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, 1969; M. Matos: Absolutely Summing Mappings, Nuclear Mappings and Convolution Equations, IMECC-UNICAMP, 2007; and X. Mujica: Aplicações τ (p; q)-somantes e σ(p)-nucleares, Thesis, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2006.     

Fourier transform and quasi-analytic classes of functions of bounded type on tubular domains

A condition for a function of bounded type to belong to the Hardy class H ¹ in terms of the Fourier transform of the boundary values of this function on R ⁿ is found. Applications of the obtained result to the theories of Hardy classes and of quasi-analytic classes of functions are given.     

An explicit extension formula of bounded holomorphic functions from analytic varieties to strictly convex domains

We consider a strictly convex domain D ⁿ and m holomorphic functions, φ₁,…, φ_m, in a domain . We set V = {z ε Ω: φ₁(z) = ··· = φ_m(z) = 0}, M = V ∩ D and ∂M = V ∩ ∂D. Under the assumptions that the variety V has no singular point on ∂M and that V meets ∂D transversally we construct an explicit kernel K(ζ, z) defined for ζ ε ∂M and z ε D so that the integral operator Ef(z) = ∝ _{ζ ε ∂M} f(ζ) K(ζ, z) (z ε D), defined for f ε H^∞(M) (using the boundary values f(ζ) for a.e. ζ ε ∂M), is an extension operator, i.e., Ef(z) = f(z) for z ε M and furthermore E is a bounded operator from H^∞ to H^∞(D).     

Rays condition and extension of CR functions from manifolds of higher type

We prove that CR functions defined in a wedge inside a CR manifold extend to be CR (or holomorphic) in the directions given by the higher order generalization of the Levi form taken at complex tangent vectors satisfying the so-called rays condition. This generalizes extension results by Boggess-Polking [7], Baouendi-Treves [3], Fornaess-Rea [10] and the second and the third authors [18] and puts them into a unified frame.