Composition Operators on Orlicz–Lorentz Spaces

In this paper, we study the boundedness and the compactness of composition operators on Orlicz–Lorentz spaces.      

Differences of Composition Operators between Weighted Banach Spaces of Holomorphic Functions on the Unit Polydisk

We consider differences of composition operators between given weighted Banach spaces H ^∞ _v or H ⁰ _v of analytic functions defined on the unit polydisk D ^N with weighted sup-norms and give estimates for the distance of these differences to the space of compact operators. We also study boundedness and compactness of the operators. This paper is an extension of [6] where the one-dimensional case is treated. Received: May 15, 2007. Revised: October 8, 2007.     

Composition Operators on Small Spaces

We show that if a small holomorphic Sobolev space on the unit disk is not just small but very small, then a trivial necessary condition is also sufficient for a composition operator to be bounded. A similar result for holomorphic Lipschitz spaces is also obtained. These results may be viewed as boundedness analogues of Shapiro’s theorem concerning compact composition operators on small spaces. We also prove the converse of Shapiro’s theorem if the symbol function is already contained in the space under consideration. In the course of the proofs we characterize the bounded composition operators on the Zygmund class. Also, as a by-product of our arguments, we show that small holomorphic Sobolev spaces are algebras.     

Linear-Fractional Composition Operators in Several Variables

We investigate properties of linear-fractional composition operators C_φ on Hardy and Bergman spaces of the ball in that are motivated by a formula for the self-commutator [C_φ^* ,C_φ]. In particular, we characterize when certain commutators [C_φ, C_σ] are compact, and give conditions under which is compact, where is multiplication by the monomial z^β. Our results allow us to determine when C_φ is essentially normal, for φ belonging to a large class of linear-fractional symbols.     

Topological Structure of the Space of Weighted Composition Operators on H ∞

We study properties of the topological space of weighted composition operators on the space of bounded analytic functions on the open unit disk in the uniform operator topology. Moreover, we characterize the compactness of differences of two weighted composition operators.     

Hardy Spaces of Dirichlet Series and Their Composition Operators

 In [9], Hedenmalm, Lindqvist and Seip introduce the Hilbert space of Dirichlet series with square summable coefficients , and begin its study, with modern functional and harmonic analysis tools. The space is an analogue for Dirichlet series of the space for Fourier series. We continue their study by introducing , an analogue to the spaces . Thanks to Bohr’s vision of Dirichlet series, we identify with the Hardy space of the infinite polydisk . Next, we study a variant of the Poisson semigroup for Dirichlet series. We give a result similar to the one of Weissler ([25]) about the hypercontractivity of this semigroup on the spaces . Finally, following [8], we determine the composition operators on , and we compare some properties of such an operator and of its symbol. Received October 3, 2001; in revised form January 16, 2002 Published online July 12, 2002     

Essential Norms of Composition Operators

We obtain simple estimates for the essential norm of a composition operator acting from the Hardy space H ^p to H ^q , p > q, in one or several variables. When p = and q = 2 our results give an exact formula for the essential norm.     

Weighted Composition Operators on H 2 and Applications

Operators on function spaces acting by composition to the right with a fixed selfmap φ of some set are called composition operators of symbol φ. A weighted composition operator is an operator equal to a composition operator followed by a multiplication operator. We summarize the basic properties of bounded and compact weighted composition operators on the Hilbert Hardy space on the open unit disk and use them to study composition operators on Hardy–Smirnov spaces. Submitted: January 30, 2007. Revised: June 19, 2007. Accepted: July 11, 2007.     

Composition Operators and Vector-valued BMOA

Analytic composition operators are studied on X-valued versions of BMOA, the space of analytic functions on the unit disk that have bounded mean oscillation on the unit circle, where X is a complex Banach space. It is shown that if X is reflexive and C _φ is compact on BMOA, then C _φ is weakly compact on the X-valued space BMOA _C (X) defined in terms of Carleson measures. A related function-theoretic characterization is given of the compact composition operators on BMOA.     

Compact Differences of Weighted Composition Operators on Weighted Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions

Let be the weighted Banach space of analytic functions with a topology generated by weighted sup-norm. In the present article, we investigate the analytic mappings and which characterize the compactness of differences of two weighted composition operators on the space . As a consequence we characterize the compactness of differences of composition operators on weighted Bloch spaces.      

Spectra of Compact Composition Operators Over Bounded Symmetric Domains

Let H²(D) denote the Hardy space of a bounded symmetric domain in its standard Harish-Chandra realization, and let be the weighted Bergman space with and where is a critical value depending on D. Suppose that is holomorphic. We show that if the composition operator defined by is compact (or, more generally, power-compact) on H²(D) or then has a unique fixed point z₀ in D. We then prove that the spectrum of as an operator on these function spaces is precisely the set consisting of 0, 1, and all possible products of eigenvalues of These results extend previous work by Caughran/Schwartz and MacCluer. As a corollary, we now have that MacCluers previous spectrum results on the unit ball B_n extend to H^p(n) (not only for p = 2 but for all p > 1) and (for p 1), where ⁿ is the polydisk in      

Toeplitz Operators on Arveson and Dirichlet Spaces

We define Toeplitz operators on all Dirichlet spaces on the unit ball of and develop their basic properties. We characterize bounded, compact, and Schatten-class Toeplitz operators with positive symbols in terms of Carleson measures and Berezin transforms. Our results naturally extend those known for weighted Bergman spaces, a special case applies to the Arveson space, and we recover the classical Hardy-space Toeplitz operators in a limiting case; thus we unify the theory of Toeplitz operators on all these spaces. We apply our operators to a characterization of bounded, compact, and Schatten-class weighted composition operators on weighted Bergman spaces of the ball. We lastly investigate some connections between Toeplitz and shift operators. The research of the second author is partially supported by a Fulbright grant.     

Isometric Equivalence of Certain Operators on Banach Spaces

A pair of operators on a Banach space X are isometrically equivalent if they are intertwined by a surjective isometry of X. We investigate the isometric equivalence problem for pairs of operators on specific types of Banach spaces. We study weighted shifts on symmetric sequence spaces, elementary operators acting on an ideal I of Hilbert space operators, and composition operators on the Bloch space. This last case requires an extension of known results about surjective isometries of the Bloch space.     

Composition operators acting between hardy spaces

A function-theoretic necessary and sufficient condition on a symbol is given for the compactness of the induced composition operator acting betweenH ^p andH ^q , forq. Compact differences of such composition operators are shown to occur only in the trivial case of both operators being compact themselves.     

Discretizations of Integral Operators and Atomic Decompositions in Vector-Valued Weighted Bergman Spaces

We prove a general atomic decomposition theorem for weighted vector-valued Bergman spaces, which applies to duality problems and to the study of compact Toeplitz type operators.      

Composition operators from large weighted Hardy spaces into the Dirichlet space

Given a large weighted Hardy space we show there exists a composition operatorC with that maps from that space into the unweighted Dirichlet space and lies in every Schatten p-class for 0<p<. This is in contrast to the situation in which the image space is a smaller weighted Dirichlet space. It is known that in that case it is not possible to find such a composition operator that is bounded.This research was supported in part by a summer stipend from Bellarmine College.     

Positive Semigroups of Kernel Operators

Extending results of Davies and of Keicher on ℓ^p we show that the peripheral point spectrum of the generator of a positive bounded C₀-semigroup of kernel operators on L^p is reduced to 0. It is shown that this implies convergence to an equilibrium if the semigroup is also irreducible and the fixed space non-trivial. The results are applied to elliptic operators. Dedicated to the memory of H.H. Schaefer     

Gelfand Numbers of Identity Operators Between Symmetric Sequence Spaces

Complementing and generalizing classical as well as recent results, we prove asymptotically optimal formulas for the Gelfand and approximation numbers of identities Eⁿ ↪ Fⁿ, where Eⁿ and Fⁿ denote the n-th sections of symmetric quasi-Banach sequence spaces E and F satisfying certain interpolation assumptions. We illustrate our results by considering classical spaces such as Lorentz and Orlicz sequence spaces. Supported by DFG grant Hi 584/2-2.     

Topological Components of the Set of Composition Operators on $$H^\infty (B_N)$$

This paper characterizes the component structure of the space of composition operators acting on , both in the operator norm topology and in the topology induced by the essential norm.