We establish a generalization for uniform algebras of the classical identities of Hardy and Stein. We use this and an estimate based on the isoperimetric inequality to give a proof of H. Alexander's spectral area theorem. We use similar methods to prove a theorem of Axler and Shapiro about VMOA of the unit ball in C.
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