Carleson Measures, Vanishing Mean Oscillation and Critical Points

Abstract: Given a finite positive Borel measure $\mu$ in the open unit disc of the complex plane, we construct a bounded outer function $E$ whose boundary values have vanishing mean oscillation such that $|E| \mu$ is a vanishing Carleson measure. As an application it is shown that given any function in a Hardy space, there exists a bounded analytic function in the unit disc whose boundary values have vanishing mean oscillation, with the same critical points and multiplicities.