Generalized Hankel operators and the generalized solution operator to $ \bar \partial $ on the Fock space and on the Bergman space of the unit disc

In this paper we consider Hankel operators = (Id – P ₁) from A ²(?, |z |²) to A ^2,1(?, |z |²)^⊥. Here A ²(?, |z |²) denotes the Fock space A ²(?, |z |²) = {f: f is entire and ‖f ‖² = ∫_? |f (z)|² exp (–|z |²) dλ (z) < ∞}. Furthermore A ^2,1(?, |z |²) denotes the closure of the linear span of the monomials { z ⁿ : n, l ∈ ?, l ≤ 1} and the corresponding orthogonal projection is denoted by P ₁. Note that we call these operators generalized Hankel operators because the projection P ₁ is not the usual Bergman projection. In the introduction we give a motivation for replacing the Bergman projection by P ₁. The paper analyzes boundedness and compactness of the mentioned operators. On the Fock space we show that is bounded, but not compact, and for k ≥ 3 that is not bounded. Afterwards we also consider the same situation on the Bergman space of the unit disc. Here a completely different situation appears: we have compactness for all k ≥ 1. Finally we will also consider an analogous situation in the case of several complex variables. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)