Inner approximations of doubling weights with applications to Beurling-Malliavin theory in Toeplitz kernels

Abstract

A meromorphic inner function is a bounded holomorphic function in the upper half-plane which is unimodular on the real line and extends to a meromorphic function in the whole complex plane. The argument of a meromorphic inner function on the real line is a strictly increasing function. It turns out that it is important for many problems in function theory to approximate an arbitrary increasing function, $f$, by the argument of a meromorphic inner function. Depending on desired approximation this is a delicate problem. In this paper consider the case when $f$ satisfies a doubling condition. We give two applications of our main result. The first is a sufficient density condition for a set $\Lambda$ to be a zero set for a Toeplitz kernel with real analytic and unimodular symbol. Our second application is to describe a class of admissible Beurling-Malliavin majorants in model spaces. The generality considered here lets us treat most cases of model spaces generated by meromorphic one-component inner functions.