Weighted composition operators between different Fock spaces (Q1719549)

This article investigates weighted composition operators acting from a general Fock space \(\mathcal{F}^p(\mathbb{C})\) into another \(\mathcal{F}^q(\mathbb{C})\) with \(0 < p,q < \infty\). Criteria for boundedness and compactness are presented. The entire symbols that induce bounded weighted composition operators are quite restrictive; they are only affine maps. When the operators acts from a larger Fock space into a smaller one, the properties of being bounded and compact are equivalent. Lower and upper estimates for the essential norm of weighted composition operators are thus presented when \(p \leq q\). The authors also study the topological structure of the space of all composition operators and the space of all nonzero weighted composition operators between different Fock spaces endowed with the operator norm topology. They give complete characterizations of the path connected components and isolated points in these both spaces. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the compactness of the difference of two weighted composition operators are also presented.