Hardy Spaces for Quasiregular Mappings and Composition Operators

We define Hardy spaces $${\mathcal {H}}^p$$ for quasiregular mappings in the plane, and show that for a particular class of these mappings many of the classical properties that hold in the classical setting of analytic mappings still hold. This particular class of quasiregular mappings can be characterised in terms of composition operators when the symbol is quasiconformal. Relations between Carleson measures and Hardy spaces play an important role in the discussion. This program was initiated and developed for Hardy spaces of quasiconformal mappings by Astala and Koskela in 2011 in their paper $${\mathcal {H}}^p$$ -theory for Quasiconformal Mappings (Pure Appl Math Q 7(1):19–50, 2011).