| Abstract: | We characterize those sequences (x
n
) in the spectrum of H
∞ whose Nevanlinna–Pick interpolation problems admit thin Blaschke products as solutions. We also study under which conditions
there is a Blaschke product B with prescribed zero-set distribution and solving problems of the form B(x) = f
n
(x) for every x ∈ P(x
n
), where P(x
n
) is the Gleason part associated with the point x
n
and where (f
n
) is an arbitrary sequence of functions in the unit ball of H
∞. As a corollary we get a new characterization of Carleson–Newman Blaschke products in terms of bounded universal functions,
a result first proved by Gallardo and Gorkin. |
