One-component inner functions

Abstract

We explicitely unveil several classes of inner functions $u$ in $H^\infty$ with the property that there is $\eta\in ]0,1[$ such that the level set $\Omega_u(\eta):=\{z\in\mathbb D: |u(z)|<\eta\}$ is connected. These so-called one-component inner functions play an important role in operator theory.