Universal Radial Approximation in Spaces of Analytic Functions

Abstract: Recently, Charpentier showed that there exist holomorphic functions $f$ in the unit disk such that, for any proper compact subset $K$ of the unit circle, any continuous function $\phi$ on $K$ and any compact subset $L$ of the unit disk, there exists an increasing sequence $(r_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}\subseteq[0,1)$ converging to 1 such that $|f(r_n(\zeta-z)+z)-\phi(\zeta)|\to0$ as $n\to\infty$ uniformly for $\zeta\in K$ and $z\in L$. In this paper, we give analogues of this result for the Hardy spaces $H^p(\mathbb{D}),1\leq p<\infty$. In particular, our main result implies that, if we fix a compact subset $K$ of the unit circle with zero arc length measure, then there exist functions in $H^p(\mathbb{D})$ whose radial limits can approximate every continuous function on $K$. We give similar results for the Bergman and Dirichlet spaces.