The subspace problem for weighted inductive limits of spaces of holomorphic functions

Abstract

We construct a countable inductive limit of weighted Banach spaces of holomorphic functions, which is not a topological subspace of the corresponding weighted inductive limit of spaces of continuous functions. The main step of our construction, using a special sequence of outer holomorphic functions, shows that a certain sequence space is isomorphic to a complemented subspace of a weighted space of holomorphic functions in two complex variables. This example solves in the negative a well-known open problem raised by Bierstedt, Meise and Summers.