Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

I will discuss linear extremal problems in the Bergman spaces $A^p$ ofthe unit disc and a theorem of Ryabykh about regularity of thesolutions to these problems. I will also discuss extensions I havefound of Ryabykh's theorem in the case where $p$ is an even integer.The proofs of these extensions involve Littlewood-Paley theory and abasic characterization of extremal functions.