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Alan Sola

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arXiv2026

Stable polynomials and bounded rational functions in the unit ball

We study polynomials with no zeros on the unit ball in complex Euclidean space with a view toward characterizing when a rational function is bounded on the ball. We give a complete local description of such polynomials in two variables near a boundary zero. In higher dimensions, we give a partial characterization of a simple boundary zero. Several applications are given including boundedness of rational functions with boundary singularities and constructions of examples with prescribed local properties.

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arXiv2025

On the membership of two-variable Rational Inner Functions in spaces of Dirichlet-type

We study membership of rational inner functions on the bidisk $\mathbb{D}^2$ in a scale of Dirichlet spaces considered by Bera, Chavan, and Ghara, and in higher-order variants of these spaces. We give a characterization for membership in terms of the geometric concept of contact order of a rational inner function at its singular points, and we further record some consequences and variants of our main result.

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arXiv2025

Pairs of Clark Unitary Operators on the Bidisk and their Taylor Joint Spectra

We develop a Clark theory for commuting compressed shift operators on model spaces $K_{\phi}$ associated with inner functions $\phi$ on the bidisk, which exhibits both similarities and marked differences compared to the classical one-variable version. We first identify the adjoint of the embedding operator $J_{\alpha} \colon K_{\phi}\to L^2(\sigma_{\alpha})$ as a weighted Cauchy transform of the Clark measure $\sigma_{\alpha}$. Under natural assumptions, which generically include the case when $\phi$ is rational inner, we obtain commuting unitaries on $K_{\phi}$ that are (often infinite-dimensional) perturbations of the compressed shift operators $K_{\phi}$. We prove that these unitaries are unitarily equivalent to multiplication by the coordinate functions on $L^2(\sigma_\alpha)$ and then establish a number of related properties and simplified results in special cases. Finally, we show that the Taylor joint spectrum of these Clark unitaries coincides with level sets of $\phi$ when $\phi$ is a rational inner function.

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arXiv2024

Stable polynomials and admissible numerators in product domains

Given a polynomial $p$ with no zeros in the polydisk, or equivalently the poly-upper half-plane, we study the problem of determining the ideal of polynomials $q$ with the property that the rational function $q/p$ is bounded near a boundary zero of $p$. We give a complete description of this ideal of numerators in the case where the zero set of $p$ is smooth and satisfies a non-degeneracy condition. We also give a description of the ideal in terms of an integral closure when $p$ has an isolated zero on the distinguished boundary. Constructions of multivariate stable polynomials are presented to illustrate sharpness of our results and necessity of our assumptions.

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arXiv2023

Multipliers for Hardy-Orlicz spaces and applications

Using real-variable methods, we characterise multipliers for general classes of Hardy--Orlicz spaces, unifying and extending several classical results due to Hardy and Littlewood; Duren and Shields; Paley; and others. Applications of our results include inequalities involving Fourier coefficients and Fourier transforms of elements of Hardy--Orlicz spaces and their duals, as well as embeddings into spaces of generalised smoothness, Sobolev type-embeddings and Paley-Wiener type theorems.

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arXiv2022

A note on polydegree $(n,1)$ rational inner functions, slice matrices, and singularities

We analyze certain compositions of rational inner functions in the unit polydisk $\mathbb{D}^{d}$ with polydegree $(n,1)$, $n\in \mathbb{N}^{d-1}$, and isolated singularities in $\mathbb{T}^d$. Provided an irreducibility condition is met, such a composition is shown to be a rational inner function with singularities in precisely the same location as those of the initial function, and with quantitatively controlled properties. As an application, we answer a $d$-dimensional version of a question posed in \cite{BPS22} in the affirmative.

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arXiv2021

Local theory of stable polynomials and bounded rational functions of several variables

We provide detailed local descriptions of stable polynomials in terms of their homogeneous decompositions, Puiseux expansions, and transfer function realizations. We use this theory to first prove that bounded rational functions on the polydisk possess non-tangential limits at every boundary point. We relate higher non-tangential regularity and distinguished boundary behavior of bounded rational functions to geometric properties of the zero sets of stable polynomials via our local descriptions. For a fixed stable polynomial $p$, we analyze the ideal of numerators $q$ such that $q/p$ is bounded on the bi-upper half plane. We completely characterize this ideal in several geometrically interesting situations including smooth points, double points, and ordinary multiple points of $p$. Finally, we analyze integrability properties of bounded rational functions and their derivatives on the bidisk.

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arXiv2021

Dynamics of low-degree rational inner skew-products on $\mathbb{T}^2$

We examine iteration of certain skew-products on the bidisk whose components are rational inner functions, with emphasis on simple maps of the form $Φ(z_1,z_2) = (ϕ(z_1,z_2), z_2)$. If $ϕ$ has degree $1$ in the first variable, the dynamics on each horizontal fiber can be described in terms of Möbius transformations but the global dynamics on the $2$-torus exhibit some complexity, encoded in terms of certain $\mathbb{T}^2$-symmetric polynomials. We describe the dynamical behavior of such mappings $Φ$ and give criteria for different configurations of fixed point curves and rotation belts in terms of zeros of a related one-variable polynomial.

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arXiv2020

Notes on $H^{\log} $: structural properties, dyadic variants, and bilinear $H^1$-$BMO$ mappings

This article is devoted to a study of the Hardy space $H^{\log} (\mathbb{R}^d)$ introduced by Bonami, Grellier, and Ky. We present an alternative approach to their result relating the product of a function in the real Hardy space $H^1$ and a function in $BMO$ to distributions that belong to $H^{\log}$ based on dyadic paraproducts. We also point out analogues of classical results of Hardy-Littlewood, Zygmund, and Stein for $H^{\log}$ and related Musielak-Orlicz spaces.

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arXiv2020

Optimal approximants and orthogonal polynomials in several variables

We discuss the notion of optimal polynomial approximants in multivariable reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. In particular, we analyze difficulties that arise in the multivariable case which are not present in one variable, for example, a more complicated relationship between optimal approximants and orthogonal polynomials in weighted spaces. Weakly inner functions, whose optimal approximants are all constant, provide extreme cases where nontrivial orthogonal polynomials cannot be recovered from the optimal approximants. Concrete examples are presented to illustrate the general theory and are used to disprove certain natural conjectures regarding zeros of optimal approximants in several variables.

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arXiv2019

Singularities of rational inner functions in higher dimensions

We study the boundary behavior of rational inner functions (RIFs) in dimensions three and higher from both analytic and geometric viewpoints. On the analytic side, we use the critical integrability of the derivative of a rational inner function of several variables to quantify the behavior of a RIF near its singularities, and on the geometric side we show that the unimodular level sets of a RIF convey information about its set of singularities. We then specialize to three-variable degree $(m,n,1)$ RIFs and conduct a detailed study of their derivative integrability, zero set and unimodular level set behavior, and non-tangential boundary values. Our results, coupled with constructions of non-trivial RIF examples, demonstrate that much of the nice behavior seen in the two-variable case is lost in higher dimensions.

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arXiv2019

One-dimensional scaling limits in a planar Laplacian random growth model

We consider a family of growth models defined using conformal maps in which the local growth rate is determined by $|Φ_n'|^{-η}$, where $Φ_n$ is the aggregate map for $n$ particles. We establish a scaling limit result in which strong feedback in the growth rule leads to one-dimensional limits in the form of straight slits. More precisely, we exhibit a phase transition in the ancestral structure of the growing clusters: for $η>1$, aggregating particles attach to their immediate predecessors with high probability, while for $η<1$ almost surely this does not happen.

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arXiv2018

Level curve portraits of rational inner functions

We analyze the behavior of rational inner functions on the unit bidisk near singularities on the distinguished boundary $\mathbb{T}^2$ using level sets. We show that the unimodular level sets of a rational inner function $ϕ$ can be parametrized with analytic curves and connect the behavior of these analytic curves to that of the zero set of $ϕ$. We apply these results to obtain a detailed description of the fine numerical stability of $ϕ$: for instance, we show that $\frac{\partial ϕ}{\partial z_1}$ and $\frac{\partial ϕ}{\partial z_2}$ always possess the same $L^{\mathfrak{p}}$-integrability on $\mathbb{T}^2$, and we obtain combinatorial relations between intersection multiplicities at singularities and vanishing orders for branches of level sets. We also present several new methods of constructing rational inner functions that allow us to prescribe properties of their zero sets, unimodular level sets, and singularities.

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arXiv2018

Multi-parameter extensions of a theorem of Pichorides

Extending work of Pichorides and Zygmund to the $d$-dimensional setting, we show that the supremum of $L^p$-norms of the Littlewood-Paley square function over the unit ball of the analytic Hardy spaces $H^p_A(\mathbb{T}^d)$ blows up like $(p-1)^{-d}$ as $p\to 1^+$. Furthermore, we obtain an $L\log^d L$-estimate for square functions on $H^1_A(\mathbb{T}^d)$. Euclidean variants of Pichorides's theorem are also obtained.

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arXiv2017

Remarks on Inner Functions and Optimal Approximants

We discuss the concept of inner function in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces with an orthogonal basis of monomials and examine connections between inner functions and optimal polynomial approximants to $1/f$, where $f$ is a function in the space. We revisit some classical examples from this perspective, and show how a construction of Shapiro and Shields can be modified to produce inner functions.

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arXiv2017

Derivatives of rational inner functions: geometry of singularities and integrability at the boundary

We analyze the singularities of rational inner functions on the unit bidisk and study both when these functions belong to Dirichlet-type spaces and when their partial derivatives belong to Hardy spaces. We characterize derivative $H^{\mathfrak{p}}$ membership purely in terms of contact order, a measure of the rate at which the zero set of a rational inner function approaches the distinguished boundary of the bidisk. We also show that derivatives of rational inner functions with singularities fail to be in $H^{\mathfrak{p}}$ for $\mathfrak{p}\ge\frac{3}{2}$ and that higher non-tangential regularity of a rational inner function paradoxically reduces the $H^{\mathfrak{p}}$ integrability of its derivative. We derive inclusion results for Dirichlet-type spaces from derivative inclusion for $H^{\mathfrak{p}}$. Using Agler decompositions and local Dirichlet integrals, we further prove that a restricted class of rational inner functions fails to belong to the unweighted Dirichlet space.

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arXiv2015

Cyclic polynomials in anisotropic Dirichlet~spaces

Consider the Dirichlet-type space on the bidisk consisting of holomorphic functions $f(z_1,z_2):=\sum_{k,l\geq 0}a_{kl}z_1^kz_2^l$ such that $\sum_{k,l\geq 0}(k+1)^{α_1} (l+1)^{α_2}|a_{kl}|^2 <\infty.$ Here the parameters $α_1,α_2$ are arbitrary real numbers. We characterize the polynomials that are cyclic for the shift operators on this space. More precisely, we show that, given an irreducible polynomial $p(z_1,z_2)$ depending on both $z_1$ and $z_2$ and having no zeros in the bidisk: if $α_1+α_2\leq 1$, then $p$ is cyclic; if $α_1+α_2>1$ and $\min\{α_1,α_2\}\leq 1$, then $p$ is cyclic if and only if it has finitely many zeros in the two-torus $\mathbb T^2$; if $\min\{α_1,α_2\}>1$, then $p$ is cyclic if and only if it has no zeros in $\mathbb T^2$.

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