We are concerned with extensions of the Mason--Stothers abc theorem from
polynomials to analytic functions on the unit disk D. The new feature
is that the number of zeros of a function f in D gets replaced by
the norm of the associated Blaschke product Bf in a suitable smoothness
space X. Such extensions are shown to exist, and the appropriate abc-type
estimates are exhibited, provided that X admits a "Garsia-type norm", i.e., a
norm sharing certain properties with the classical Garsia norm on BMO. Special
emphasis is placed on analytic Lipschitz spaces.Comment: 9 page