The essential norm of Hankel operator on the Bergman spaces of strongly pseudoconvex domains

Let D be a bounded strongly pseudoconvex domain with smooth boundary in Cⁿ and let fL²(D). For the Hankel operator H_f on the Bergman space A²(D), it is shown that the essential norm of H_f in L²(D) is comparable to the distance norm from H_f to compact Hankel operators. The result extends the previous corresponding version in the disc proved by Lin and Rochberg in Integ.Equat.Oper.Theory 361–372,17 (1993).