A general view of multipliers and composition operators (Q1826847)

This interesting work contains an axiomatic approach to multipliers and composition operators. Quoting the authors' own words, their abstract approach ``unifies various treatments of multipliers and composition operators in a vast number of different contexts. The general treatment leads naturally to many interesting questions that have not arisen in the special contexts. Any theorem proved in their general setting gives results in all the special contexts.'' Left and right composition operators in terms of unital endomorphisms of multiplier algebras are introduced. These composition operators are then characterized as being certain multiplicative maps. Notions such as local multipliers and local composition operators are introduced. Many new examples in the function theoretic and even noncommutative setting are presented as an application of their theory. The reading of this paper warmly recommended.