Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2019
Let $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}$ be a positive finite Borel measure on the unit circle and
${\mathcal{D}}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$ the associated harmonically weighted Dirichlet space. In this paper we show that for each closed subset
$E$ of the unit circle with zero
$c_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}}$-capacity, there exists a function
$f\in {\mathcal{D}}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$ such that
$f$ is cyclic (i.e.,
$\{pf:p\text{ is a polynomial}\}$ is dense in
${\mathcal{D}}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$),
$f$ vanishes on
$E$, and
$f$ is uniformly continuous. Next, we provide a sufficient condition for a continuous function on the closed unit disk to be cyclic in
${\mathcal{D}}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$.