We introduce and study some new spaces of holomorphic functions on the right half-plane \(\mathcal {R}.\) In a previous work, S. Krantz, C. Stoppato, and the first named author formulated the Muntz–Szasz problem for the Bergman space, that is, the problem to characterize the sets of complex powers \(\{\zeta ^{\lambda _j-1}\}\) with \({\text {Re}}\lambda _j>0\) that form a complete set in the Bergman space \(A^2(\varDelta ),\) where \(\varDelta =\{\zeta {\text {:}}\, |\zeta -1|<1\}.\) In this paper, we construct a space of holomorphic functions on the right half-plane, that we denote by \(\mathcal {M}^2_\omega (\mathcal {R}),\) whose sets of uniqueness \(\{\lambda _j\}\) correspond exactly to the sets of powers \(\{\zeta ^{\lambda _j-1}\}\) that are a complete set in \(A^2(\varDelta ).\) We show that \(\mathcal {M}^2_\omega (\mathcal {R})\) is a reproducing kernel Hilbert space, and we prove a Paley–Wiener-type theorem and several other structural properties. We determine both a necessary and a sufficient condition on a set \(\{\lambda _j\}\) to be a set of uniqueness for \(\mathcal {M}^2_\omega (\mathcal {R}),\) thus providing a condition for the solution of the Muntz–Szasz problem for the Bergman space. Finally, we prove that the orthogonal projection is unbounded on \(L^p(\mathcal {R},\,\mathrm{d}\omega )\) for all \(p\ne 2.\)
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