Localized Frames and Compactness

We introduce the concept of weak localization for continuous frames and use this concept to define a class of weakly localized operators. This class contains many important classes of operators, including: short time Fourier transform multipliers, Calderon–Toeplitz operators, Toeplitz operators on various functions spaces, Anti-Wick operators, some pseudodifferential operators, some Calderon–Zygmund operators, and many others. In this paper, we study the boundedness and compactness of weakly localized operators. In particular, we provide a characterization of compactness for weakly localized operators in terms of the behavior of their Berezin transforms.