On completion of the course, participants shall be able to:
• Define Hardy spaces on the unit disc and describe their basic properties, especially the boundary behaviour of functions in these spaces, the use of non-tangential maximal functions and their relation to the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function.
• Describe the bounded Carleson-embeddings of these spaces into L^p-spaces corresponding to measures on the unit disc.
• Describe the inner-outer factorization of functions in Hardy spaces and its applications, for example the Phragmén-Lindelöf principle. Describe the inner-outer factorization of a concrete function.
• State and prove the M. Riesz theorem about conjugate harmonic functions, as well as Fefferman’s duality theorem in the limit case p=1.
• Reflect about the strength of these methods in the study of analytic functions on a disc, but also about their limitations concerning functions with fast growth near the boundary.