Extreme Bloch Functions and Summation Methods for Bloch Functions

In this paper we construct Bloch functions F for which the set {z | e sup _{|ζ| < 1} |F'(ζ)| ( 1 - |ζ| ² ) = |F'(z)| ( 1 - |z| ² )} is an analytic Jordan curve tangential to the unit disk in some points. It is proved that, using such functions, we can derive analogs to the Taylor expansion for Bloch functions in cases where the Taylor expansion does not converge. October 15, 1997. Date revised: March 12, 1998. Date accepted: June 18, 1998.