In this paper we study interpolating sequences for two related spaces of holomorphic functions in the unit ball of $\C^n$, $n>1$. We first give density conditions for a sequence to be interpolating for the class $A^{-\infty}$ of holomorphic functions with polynomial growth. The sufficient condition is formally identical to the characterizing condition in dimension $1$, whereas the necessary one goes along the lines of the results given by Li and Taylor for some spaces of entire functions. In the second part of the paper we show that a density condition, which for $n=1$ coincides with the characterizing condition given by Seip, is sufficient for interpolation in the (weighted) Bergman space.

The celebrated theorem of Picard asserts that each non-constant entire function assumes every value infinitely often, with at most one exception. The Riemann zeta function has this Picard behaviour in a sequence of discs lying in the critical band and whose diameters tend to zero. According to the Riemann hypothesis, the value zero would be this (unique) exceptional value.

H.~O.~Kim has shown that contrary to the case of $H^p$-space, the Smirnov class $M$ defined by the radial maximal function is essentially smaller than the classical Smirnov class of the disk. In the paper we show that these two classes have the same corresponding locally convex structure, {\it i.e.} they have the same dual spaces and the same Fr\'echet envelopes. We describe a general form of a continuous linear functional on $M$ and multiplier from $M$ into $H^p$, $0 < p \leq \infty$.

Using a classical generalization of Jacobi's derivative formula, we give an explicit expression for Gunning's prime form in genus 2 in terms of theta functions and their derivatives.

Applications of minimal surface methods are made to obtain information about univalent harmonic mappings. In the case where the mapping arises as the Poisson integral of a step function, lower bounds for the number of zeros of the dilatation are obtained in terms of the geometry of the image.

Let $G$ be a discrete subgroup of $\SL(2,\R)$ which contains $\Gamma(N)$ for some $N$. If the genus of $X(G)$ is zero, then there is a unique normalised generator of the field of $G$-automorphic functions which is known as a normalised Hauptmodul. This paper gives a characterisation of normalised Hauptmoduls as formal $q$ series using modular polynomials.

Functions defined on closed sets are simultaneously approximated and interpolated by meromorphic functions with prescribed poles and zeros outside the set of approximation.

We present a new, simple proof of the classical Abel-Jacobi theorem using some elementary gauge theoretic arguments.

An infinite family of perfect, non-extremal Riemann surfaces is constructed, the first examples of this type of surfaces. The examples are based on normal subgroups of the modular group $\PSL(2,{\sf Z})$ of level $6$. They provide non-Euclidean analogues to the existence of perfect, non-extremal positive definite quadratic forms. The analogy uses the function {\it syst\/} which associates to every Riemann surface $M$ the length of a systole, which is a shortest closed geodesic of $M$.

We observe that any set of uniqueness for the Dirichlet space $\cD$ is a set of uniqueness for the class $S$ of normalized univalent holomorphic functions.

Every weakly compact composition operator between weighted Banach spaces $H_v^{\infty}$ of analytic functions with weighted sup-norms is compact. Lower and upper estimates of the essential norm of continuous composition operators are obtained. The norms of the point evaluation functionals on the Banach space $H_v^{\infty}$ are also estimated, thus permitting to get new characterizations of compact composition operators between these spaces.

A well-known result, due to Ostrowski, states that if $\Vert P-Q \Vert_2< \varepsilon$, then the roots $(x_j)$ of $P$ and $(y_j)$ of $Q$ satisfy $|x_j -y_j|\le C n \varepsilon^{1/n}$, where $n$ is the degree of $P$ and $Q$. Though there are cases where this estimate is sharp, it can still be made more precise in general, in two ways: first by using Bombieri's norm instead of the classical $l_1$ or $l_2$ norms, and second by taking into account the multiplicity of each root. For instance, if $x$ is a simple root of $P$, we show that $|x-y|< C \varepsilon$ instead of $\varepsilon^{1/n}$. The proof uses the properties of Bombieri's scalar product and Walsh Contraction Principle.

We present a short proof for a classical result on separating singularities of holomorphic functions. The proof is based on the open mapping theorem and the fusion lemma of Roth, which is a basic tool in complex approximation theory. The same method yields similar separation results for other classes of functions.

We show that the multiplier space $(A^1,X)=\{g:M_\infty(r,g'') =O(1-r)^{-1}\}$, where $X$ is $\BMOA$, $\VMOA$, $B$, $B_0$ or disk algebra $A$. We give the multipliers from $A^1$ to $A^q(H^q)(1\le q\le \infty)$, we also give the multipliers from $l^p(1\le p\le 2), C_0, \BMOA$, and $H^p(2\le p<\infty)$ into $A^q(1\le q\le 2)$.

It is shown that if $f$ is an entire transcendental function, $l$ a straight line in the complex plane, and $n\geq 2$, then $f$ has infinitely many repelling periodic points of period $n$ that do not lie on $l$.

Nous {\'e}tablissons un th{\'e}or{\`e}me pour les fonctions holomorphes {\`a} valeurs dans une partie convexe ferm{\'e}e. Ce th{\'e}or{\`e}me pr{\'e}cise la position des coefficients de Taylor de telles fonctions et peut {\^e}tre consid{\'e}r{\'e} comme une g{\'e}n{\'e}ralisation des in{\'e}galit{\'e}s de Cauchy. Nous montrons alors comment ce th{\'e}or{\`e}me permet de retrouver des versions connues du principe du maximum et d'obtenir de nouveaux r{\'e}sultats sur les applications holomorphes {\`a} valeurs vectorielles.