Poletsky-Stessin-Hardy spaces in the plane

Abstract

In this paper we give two complete characterizations of the Poletsky- Stessin- Hardy spaces in the complex plane: First in terms of their boundary values as a weighted subclass of the usual $L^p$ class with respect to the arclength measure on the boundary. Second we completely describe functions in these spaces by having a harmonic majorant with a certain growth condition and we prove some basic results about these spaces. In particular, we prove approximation results in such spaces and extend the classical result of Beurling which describes the invariant subspaces of the shift operator. Additionally we provide non-trivial examples.