Abstract. In this paper we discuss the possible generalizations of a lifting theorem of a 2 X 2 matrix to uniform algebras. These have applications to Hankel operators, weighted norm inequalities for conjugation operators and Toeplitz operators on uniform algebras. For example, the Helson-Szegö theorems for general uniform algebras follow.1. Introduction. We will consider a fixed uniform algebra A on a compact Hausdorff space X, and a fixed homomorphism t in MA, the maximal ideal space of A. The set of representing measures for t will be denoted by #T. The kernel of t will be denoted by A0. That is, A0 consists of the functions f in A such that t(/) = 0. We study only 2x2 measure matrices u. = (u, ) whose elements are finite complex regular Borel measures, and satisfy the conditions: