Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Our aim in this paper is to obtain some theorems concerning spaces of analytic functions on a finite open Riemann surface R which extend known results for the disc △ = {|z| < 1}. Suppose that R has a smooth boundary bR consisting of t closed curves, and that the interior genus of R is s. The first Betti number of R is then r = 2s + t — 1.
The work of the second author was supported by the NSF grant GP-3483.