Journal of Functional Analysis 189, 267–282 (2002) doi:10.1006/jfan.2001.3842, available online at http://www.idealibrary.comon A New Estimate for the Vector Valued Corona Problem Tavan T. Trent1 Department of Mathematics, The University of Alabama, Box 870350, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487 E-mail:
[email protected] Communicated by D. Sarason Received May 5, 2001; accepted June 18, 2001 We improve an estimate of Fuhrmann and Vasyunin in the vector valued corona theorem. © 2002 Elsevier Science (USA) Key Words: Hilbert space; vector valued corona theorem; ideals of operators; Carleson; Tolokonnikov; Vasyunin. View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Elsevier - Publisher Connector In this paper we will give an improved estimate in the vector valued corona theorem for the unit disk. Our proof will be split into two parts: first, we will resurrect the operator corona theorem from the 1970s, and then we will use a Hilbert space argument, based on a version of Wolff’s ideas. Since we use Hilbert space methods, the Riesz representation theorem replaces the usual “¯-techniques. In 1962 Carleson determined when a finitely generated ideal in H.(D) is actually all of H.(D), by giving a function theory condition on the . generators. Namely, I(f1 , ..., fm )=H (D) if and only if there exists an ;m 2 2 e >0, so that i=1 |fi (z)| \ e for all z ¥ D. Actually, more was shown, as m a bound for the size of solutions was given. More precisely, if {fi }i=1 … .