Compact and weakly compact composition operators on BMOA

DOI10.1007/S11785-011-0130-9MaRDI QIDQ371772zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jussi Laitila, Pekka J. Nieminen, Hans-Olav Tylli, Eero Saksman

Publication date 10 October 2013

Published in Complex Analysis and Operator Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3487

BMOA bounded mean compact operator composition operator oscillation vanishing mean oscillation weakly compact operators

Bloch spaces (30H30) BMO-spaces (30H35) Banach spaces of continuous, differentiable or analytic functions (46E15) Linear operators defined by compactness properties (47B07) Linear composition operators (47B33)

Abstract: We show that a composition operator induced by an analytic self-map of the unit disc in the complex plane is weakly compact on the space BMOA precisely when the operator is compact on BMOA. As a crucial step we simplify the compactness criterion due to Smith for composition operators on BMOA and show that his condition on the Nevanlinna counting function alone characterizes compactness. In addition, other equivalent compactness criteria are established for composition operators on both BMOA and its subspace VMOA.

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The authors prove that the weak compactness and compactness for composition operators \(C_\phi\) acting on BMOA are equivalent. There are already different characterizations of compactness of \(C_\phi\) on BMOA. The authors improve the one using the counting Nevanlinna function due to \textit{W. Smith} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 127, No. 9, 2715--2725 (1999; Zbl 0921.47025)] who showed that \(C_\phi\) is compact on BMOA if and only if \(\phi\) satisfies two conditions, which are shown not to be independent in this paper. In fact, one follows from the other one and hence the compactness of \(C_\phi\) on BMOA can now be described simply by the condition \(\lim_{|\phi(a)|\to 1}\|\sigma_{\phi(a)}\circ\phi\circ \sigma_a\|_{H^2}=0\), where \(\sigma_b\) denotes the standard Möbius transformation with \(\sigma_b(0)=b\). They complete their main result by establishing the equivalence with the weak compactness on BMOA. For the operators \(C_\phi\) acting on VMOA, the situation is also completely solved showing that in this case it also happens to be true that \(C_\phi\) is compact and weakly compact on VMOA are equivalent (solving a question raised by \textit{P. S. Bourdon} et al. in [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 351, No. 6, 2183--2196 (1999; Zbl 0920.47029)]) and are characterized by the condition \(\lim_{|a|\to 1}\|\sigma_{\phi(a)}\circ\phi\circ \sigma_a\|_{H^2}=0\). A rather interesting corollary of several formulations of this description leads to that the compactness of \(C_\phi\) on VMO is equivalent also to the compactness of \(C_\phi\) as operator from \(\mathcal B\) to VMOA.

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