Critical structures of inner functions II

Abstract

We study the correspondence proposed in \cite{critical-structures} between inner functions modulo post-compositions with automorphisms of the unit disk and cyclic subspaces of the weighted Bergman space $A^2_1$. The correspondence sends an inner function $I$ to the invariant subspace $[I']$, and in the opposite direction, assigns to a non-zero function $H \in A^2_1$ the Liouville map $I_H$ associated to the canonical solution of the Gauss curvature equation $\Delta u = |H|^2 e^{2u}$. We prove that $I'_H$ generates the same cyclic subspace as $H$. Combined with the results in \cite{critical-structures}, this shows that these two mappings are inverses of one another, and hence the correspondence $I \to [I']$ is a bijection.