Determining the range of complex maps plays a fundamental role in the study of several complex variables and operator theory. In particular, one is often interested in determining when a given holomorphic function is a self-map of the unit ball. In this paper, we discuss a class of maps in $\mathbb {C}^N$ that generalize linear fractional maps. We then proceed to determine precisely when such a map is a self-map of the unit ball. In particular, we take a novel approach, obtaining numerous new results about this class of maps along the way.

In 1955, Lehto showed that, for every measurable function $\psi $ on the unit circle ${\mathbb T}$ , there is a function f holomorphic in the unit disc ${{\mathbb D}}$ , having $\psi $ as radial limit a.e. on ${\mathbb T}$ . We consider an analogous boundary value problem, where the unit disc is replaced by a Stein domain on a complex manifold and radial approach to a boundary point p is replaced by (asymptotically) total approach to p.

The edge-of-the-wedge theorem in several complex variables gives the analytic continuation of functions defined on the poly upper half plane and the poly lower half plane, the set of points in $\mathbb{C}^{n}$ with all coordinates in the upper and lower half planes respectively, through a set in real space, $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. The geometry of the set in the real space can force the function to analytically continue within the boundary itself, which is qualified in our wedge-of-the-edge theorem. For example, if a function extends to the union of two cubes in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ that are positively oriented with some small overlap, the functions must analytically continue to a neighborhood of that overlap of a fixed size not depending of the size of the overlap.

In this paper we study the zero sets of harmonic functions on open sets in ${{\mathbb{R}}^{N}}$ and holomorphic functions on open sets in ${{\mathbb{C}}^{N}}$. We show that the non-extendability of such zero sets is a generic phenomenon.

We prove an analog of the classical Hartogs extension theorem for CR L2 functions defined on boundaries of certain (possibly unbounded) domains on coverings of strongly pseudoconvex manifolds. Our result is related to a question formulated in the paper of Gromov, Henkin and Shubin [GHS] on holomorphic L2 functions on coverings of pseudoconvex manifolds.

We obtain characterizations of positive Borel measures µ on Bn so that some weighted Hardy-Sobolev are imbedded in Lp(dµ), where w is an Ap weight in the unit sphere of Cn.

We investigate the radial behavior of holomorphic functions in the unit ball $B$ of $\mtc^n$. In particular, we prove the existence of universal holomorphic functions $f$ in the following sense : given any measurable function $\vphi$ on $\partial B$, there is a sequence $(r_n)_{n\geq 1}$, $0<r_n<1$, that converges to 1, such that $f(r_n\xi)$ converges to $\vphi(\xi)$ for almost every $\xi\,{\in}\,\partial B$.

The singular spectrum of $u$ in a convolution equation $\mu *u\,=\,f$, where $\mu$ and $f$ are tempered ultra distributions of Beurling or Roumieau type is estimated by

$$SSu\,\subset \,\left( {{\mathbf{R}}^{n}}\,\times \,\text{Char}\,\mu \right)\,\cup \,SSf$$

The same is done for $S{{S}_{*}}u$.

We identify a class of domains of ${{\mathbb{C}}^{n}}$ in which any two commuting holomorphic self-maps have a common fixed point.