Lectures on Nehari's Theorem on the Polydisk

We give a leisurely proof of a result of Ferguson--Lacey (math.CA/0104144) and Lacey--Terwelleger (math.CA/0601192) on a Nehari theorem for "little" Hankel operators on a polydisk. If H_b is a little Hankel operator with symbol b on product Hardy space we have || H_b || \simeq || b ||_{BMO} where BMO is the product BMO space identified by Chang and Fefferman. This article begins with the classical Nehari theorem, and presents the necessary background for the proof of the extension above. The proof of the extension is an induction on parameters, with a bootstrapping argument. Some of the more technical details of the earlier proofs are now seen as consequences of a paraproduct theory.Comment: 35 pages. 65 Reference

Maximal smoothness of the anti-analytic part of a trigonometric null series

We proved recently math.CA/0510403 that the anti-analytic part of a trigonometric series, converging to zero almost everywhere, may be square integrable on the circle. Here we prove that it can even be infinitely differentiable, and we characterize precisely the possible degree of smoothness in terms of the rate of decrease of the Fourier coefficients. This sharp condition might be viewed as a "new quasi-analyticity".Comment: 6 pages. Announcement of math.CA/0406261 and sketch of the proof of one half of it. Should be identical to journal version except the French abstrac

An "Analytic" Version of Menshov's Representation Theorem

Every measurable function f on the circle can be represented as a sum of harmonics with positive spectrum, converging in measure. For convergence almost everywhere this is not true. We discuss several other subsets of Z for which one might get a Menshov type representation converging almost everywhere or in measure.Comment: 4 pages. Announcement of math.CA/0510616. Should be identical to journal version except for the French abstrac