Essential norms of composition operators (Q1423739)

Recently, there has been considerable interest in studying lower and upper estimates for the essential norms of composition operators in function spaces. Sometimes, as a consequence, a necessary and sufficient condition for the composition operator to be compact on the function space can be obtained. In this paper, the authors estimate the essential norm of a composition operator acting from Hardy space \(H^p\) to \(H^q\) in one or several variables, where \(p>q\). When \(p=\infty\) and \(q=2\), they also give an exact formula for the essential norm.