Compactness of composition operators on BMOA

A function theoretic characterization is given of when a composition operator is compact on BMOA, the space of analytic functions on the unit disk having radial limits that are of bounded mean oscillation on the unit circle. When the symbol of the composition operator is univalent, compactness on BMOA is shown to be equivalent to compactness on the Bloch space, and a characterization in terms of the geometry of the image of the disk under the symbol of the operator results.

     

Weakly compact composition operators on vector-valued BMOA

Weak compactness of the analytic composition operator f?f○φ is studied on BMOA(X), the space of X-valued analytic functions of bounded mean oscillation, and its subspace VMOA(X), where X is a complex Banach space. It is shown that the composition operator is weakly compact on BMOA(X) if X is reflexive and the corresponding composition operator is compact on the scalar-valued BMOA. A concrete example is given which shows that BMOA(X) differs from the weak vector-valued BMOA for infinite dimensional Banach spaces X.     

Isometric composition operators on the analytic Besov spaces

We investigate the isometric composition operators on the analytic Besov spaces. For 1<p<2$1<p<2$ we show that an isometric composition operator is induced only by a rotation of the disk. For p>2$p>2$, we extend previous work on the subject. Finally, we analyze this same problem for the Besov spaces with an equivalent norm.     

BiBloch mappings and composition operators from Bloch type spaces to BMOA

The problem of constructing functions f₁, f₂ analytic in the unit disc D of the complex plane satisfying

     

Weighted BMOA spaces and composition operators

This article provides information on p-logarithmic s-Carleson measure characterization of the weighted BMOA spaces. Also, the boundedness and compactness of composition operators from Bloch-type space and weighted Bloch space to weighted BMOA space are discussed.     

Compact composition operators on the Smirnov class

We show that a composition operator on the Smirnov class is compact if and only if it is compact on some (equivalently: every) Hardy space for . Along the way we show that for composition operators on both the formally weaker notion of boundedness, and a formally stronger notion we call metric compactness, are equivalent to compactness.

     

Norm-attaining composition operators on the Bloch spaces

We prove that every composition operator C? on the Bloch space (modulo constant functions) attains its norm and characterize the norm-attaining composition operators on the little Bloch space (modulo constant functions). We also identify the extremal functions for ‖C?‖ in both cases.     

Products of integral-type operators and composition operators between Bloch-type spaces

A complete picture on the boundedness and compactness of the products of integral-type operators and composition operators between Bloch-type spaces of holomorphic functions on the unit disk is given in this paper.     

Adjoints of a class of composition operators

Adjoints of certain operators of composition type are calculated. Specifically, on the classical Hardy space of the open unit disk operators of the form are considered, where is a finite Blaschke product. is obtained as a finite linear combination of operators of the form where and are rational functions, are associated Toeplitz operators and is defined by

     

Separating classes of composition operators via subnormal condition

Several classes have been considered to study the weak subnormalities of Hilbert space operators. One of them is -hypnormality, which comes from the Bram-Halmos criterion for subnormal operators. In this note we consider -hyponormality, which is the parallel version corresponding to the Embry characterization for subnormal operators. We characterize -hyponormality of composition operators via -th Radon-Nikodym derivatives and present some examples to distinguish the classes.

     

Leibenzon's backward shift and composition operators

We apply Leibenzon's backward shift to show that the composition operator on the unit ball of always maps the weighted Hardy space into the Hardy class .

     

Bounded composition operators with closed range on the Dirichlet space

For composition operators on spaces of analytic functions it is well known that norm estimates can be converted to Carleson measure estimates. The boundedness of the composition operator becomes equivalent to a Carleson measure inequality. The measure corresponding to a composition operator on the Dirichet space is , where is the cardinality of the preimage . The composition operator will have closed range if and only if the corresponding measure satisfies a ``reverse Carleson measure' theorem: for all . Assuming is bounded, a necessary condition for this inequality is a reverse of the Carleson condition: (C) for all Carleson squares . It has long been known that this is not sufficient for a completely general measure. Here we show that it is also not sufficient for the special measures . That is, we construct a function such that is bounded and satisfies (C) but the composition operator does not have closed range.

     

Fredholm composition operators on algebras of analytic functions on Banach spaces

We prove that Fredholm composition operators acting on the uniform algebra H^∞(BE) of bounded analytic functions on the open unit ball of a complex Banach space E with the approximation property are invertible and arise from analytic automorphisms of the ball.     

Products of multiplication composition and differentiation operators on weighted Bergman spaces

Let ψ be a holomorphic function on the open unit disk D and φ a holomorphic self-map of D. Let C_φ, M_ψ and D denote the composition, multiplication and differentiation operator, respectively. We consider linear operators induced by products of these operators on weighted Bergman spaces on D. The boundedness is established by using Carleson-type measures.     

Compact differences of composition operators

A characterization of compact difference is given for composition operators acting on the standard weighted Bergman spaces and necessary conditions are given on a larger scale of weighted Dirichlet spaces. Conditions are given under which a composition operator can be written as a finite sum of composition operators modulo the compacts. The additive structure of the space of composition operators modulo the compact operators is investigated further and a sufficient condition is given to insure that two composition operators lie in the same component.     

Adjoints of rationally induced composition operators

We give an elementary proof of a formula recently obtained by Hammond, Moorhouse, and Robbins for the adjoint of a rationally induced composition operator on the Hardy space H² [Christopher Hammond, Jennifer Moorhouse, Marian E. Robbins, Adjoints of composition operators with rational symbol, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 341 (2008) 626-639]. We discuss some variants and implications of this formula, and use it to provide a sufficient condition for a rationally induced composition operator adjoint to be a compact perturbation of a weighted composition operator.