© 2002 by London Mathematical Society
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Properties of Removable Singularities for Hardy Spaces of Analytic Functions
Department of Mathematics, Linköping University SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden, anbjo{at}mai.liu.se
Received 2 April 2001. Revision received 7 January 2002.
Removable singularities for Hardy spaces Hp(
) = {f
Hol(
): |f|p
u in
for some harmonic u}, 0 < p <
are studied. A set E =
is a weakly removable singularity for Hp(
\E) if Hp(
\E)
Hol(
), and a strongly removable singularity for Hp(
\E) if Hp(
\E) = Hp(
). The two types of singularities coincide for compact E, and weak removability is independent of the domain
.
The paper looks at differences between weak and strong removability, the domain dependence of strong removability, and when removability is preserved under unions. In particular, a domain
and a set E
that is weakly removable for all Hp, but not strongly removable for any Hp(
\E), 0 < p <
, are found.
It is easy to show that if E is weakly removable for Hp(
\E) and q > p, then E is also weakly removable for Hq(
\E). It is shown that the corresponding implication for strong removability holds if and only if q/p is an integer.
Finally, the theory of Hardy space capacities is extended, and a comparison is made with the similar situation for weighted Bergman spaces.