Carleson measure 2026-10-14
A positive Borel measure near a domain boundary is a Carleson measure when its mass in boundary neighborhoods is bounded by a constant times their boundary measure. On the unit disc, this becomes the displayed bound for every Carleson box. The equivalent hyperbolic geodesic cap version follows from the geodesic-cap and Carleson-box comparison. The Carleson embedding theorem on the disk explains why this geometric growth condition controls integration of analytic Hardy spaces.
For a short arc of normalized length , every point of its hyperbolic geodesic cap lies within Euclidean distance of its center boundary point. Conversely, for any fixed , the region with angular projection in and depth lies in for a fixed enlargement depending only on , when is sufficiently short. To verify this, rotate the midpoint to one and write the endpoints as . The cap inequality is . Its radial depth at the midpoint is , comparable to for small ; its angular projection lies in . Enlarging by a sufficiently large fixed factor makes the inequality hold throughout the indicated rectangle. Large arcs use a finite cover of the disc. Thus Carleson boxes and hyperbolic geodesic caps define equivalent Carleson measure conditions.
The rectangle containment can also be checked directly. Write with and . Its membership in the enlarged cap is equivalent to
For small enough , . The right side is at most , while the left side is at least , using the sine product formula and for small positive . Thus suffices.