Compact Toeplitz operators via the Berezin transform on bounded symmetric domains

Let be an irreducible bounded symmetric domain of genusp, h(x, y) its Jordan triple determinant, andA ² () the standard weighted Bergman space of holomorphic functions on square-integrable with respect to the measureh(z, z) ^–p dz. Extending the recent result of Axler and Zheng for =D, =p=2 (the unweighted Bergman space on the unit disc), we show that ifS is a finite sum of finite products of Toeplitz operators onA ² () and is sufficiently large, thenS is compact if and only if the Berezin transform ofS tends to zero asz approaches . An analogous assertion for the Fock space is also obtained.The author's research was supported by GA AV R grant A1019701 and GA R grant 201/96/0411.