Analytic Projections, Corona Problem and Geometry of Holomorphic Vector Bundles

The main result of the paper is the theorem giving a sufficient condition for the existence of a bounded analytic projection onto a holomorphic family of (generally infinite-dimensional) subspaces (a holomorphic sub-bundle of a trivial bundle). This sufficient condition is also necessary in the case of finite dimension or codimension of the bundle. A simple lemma of N. Nikolski connects the existence of a bounded analytic projection with the Operator Corona Problem (existence of a bounded analytic left inverse for an operator-valued function), so as corollaries of the main result we obtain new results about the Operator Corona Problem. In particular, we find a new sufficient condition, a complete solution in the case of finite codimension, and, a solution of the generalized Corona Problem.