We prove an addition formula for Jacobi functions $$\varphi _\lambda ^{\left( {\alpha ,\beta } \right)} \left( {\alpha \geqq \beta \geqq - \tfrac{1}{2}} \right)$$ analogous to the known addition formula for Jacobi polynomials. We exploit the positivity of the coefficients in the addition formula by giving the following application. We prove that the product of two Jacobi functions of the same argument has a nonnegative Fourier-Jacobi transform. This implies that the convolution structure associated to the inverse Fourier-Jacobi transform is positive.

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A function$G$in a Bergman space$A$^{$p$}, 0<$p$<∞, in the unit disk$D$is called$A$^{$p$}-inner if |$G$|^{$p$}−1 annihilates all bounded harmonic functions in$D$. Extending a recent result by Hedenmalm for$p$=2, we show (Thm. 2) that the unique compactly-supported solution Φ of the problem $$\Delta \Phi = \chi _D (|G|^p - 1),$$ where χ_{$D$}denotes the characteristic function of$D$and$G$is an arbitrary$A$^{$p$}-inner function, is continuous in$C$, and, moreover, has a vanishing normal derivative in a weak sense on the unit circle. This allows us to extend all of Hedenmalm's results concerning the invariant subspaces in the Bergman space$A$^{2}to a general$A$^{$p$}-setting.

Let$X$be a compact Hausdorff space. A kernel function on$X$×$X$, enjoying additional properties, naturally defines a semi-inner product structure on certain subspaces of all finite signed Borel measures on$X$. This paper discusses the question of completeness of such spaces.