Extension of Norm One Projections

Xiangdi Fu, Dilong Li

Published 2024-12-19Version 1

Through the establishment of several extension theorems, we provide explicit expressions for norm one projections and 1-complemented subspaces in the Hardy space $H^p(\mathbb{T})$ for $1\leq p<\infty$, $p\neq 2$. Our characterization leads to two significant corollaries: first, all 1-complemented subspaces of $H^p(\mathbb{T})$ with dimension greater than one are isometric to $H^p(\mathbb{T})$; second, all norm one projections on $H^p(\mathbb{T})$ are restrictions of norm one projections on $L^p(\mathbb{T})$ that leave $H^p(\mathbb{T})$ invariant. The second corollary answers an open problem posed by P. Wojtaszczyk in 2003. Moreover, this is the first time that norm one projections and 1-complemented subspaces in an analytic function space have been completely understood.