This up-to-date account brings together results previously scattered throughout the literature as well as new material in the area of function theory. The focus is on describing some of what has been learned thus far about the structure of the de Branges-Rovnyak spaces and their function-theoretic connections.

The Schwarz function originates in classical complex analysis and potential theory. Here the author presents the advantages favoring a mode of treatment which unites the subject with modern theory of distributions and partial differential equations thus bridging the gap between two-dimensional geometric and multi-dimensional analysts. Examines the Schwarz function and its relationship to recent investigations regarding inverse problems of Newtonian gravitation, free boundaries, Hele-Shaw flows and the propagation of singularities for holomorphic p.d.e.

This up-to-date account brings together results previously scattered throughout the literature as well as new material in the area of function theory. The focus is on describing some of what has been learned thus far about the structure of the de Branges-Rovnyak spaces and their function-theoretic connections.

The Schwarz function originates in classical complex analysis and potential theory. Here the author presents the advantages favoring a mode of treatment which unites the subject with modern theory of distributions and partial differential equations thus bridging the gap between two-dimensional geometric and multi-dimensional analysts. Examines the Schwarz function and its relationship to recent investigations regarding inverse problems of Newtonian gravitation, free boundaries, Hele-Shaw flows and the propagation of singularities for holomorphic p.d.e.