Weighted composition operators between vector-valued Lipschitz function spaces (Q1943495)

Let \((X, d)\) be a compact metric space, \((E, \|\cdot\|)\) be a Banach space and \(\alpha \in (0, 1]\). The vector-valued Lipschitz space Lip\(_{\alpha}(X, E)\) consists of all functions \(f: X \rightarrow E\) such that \[ p_{\alpha}(f)= \sup\left\{ \frac{\|f(x)- f(y)\|}{d^{\alpha}(x, y)}: x, y \in X, \, x\neq y\right\} < \infty. \] The vector-valued little Lipschitz space lip\(_{\alpha}(X, E)\) is a subspace of Lip\(_{\alpha}(X, E)\) that consists of those functions \(f\) with \[ \lim_{d(x, y)\rightarrow 0}\frac{\|f(x)- f(y)\|}{d^{\alpha}(x, y)}=0. \] Let \(X\) and \(Y\) be compact Hausdorff spaces, let \(E\) and \(F\) be Banach spaces, and let \(\mathcal{S}(X, E)\) be any subspace of \(\mathcal{C}(X, E)\), the space of all continuous \(E\)-valued functions on \(X\). A weighted composition operator \(T: \mathcal{S}(X, E) \rightarrow \mathcal{S}(Y, F)\) is defined by \(Tf(y) = W_{y}(f(\varphi(y)))\) for every \(f\in \mathcal{S}(X, E)\) and \(y\in Y\), where \(W_{y}\) is a linear operator from \(E\) into \(F\) and \(\varphi: Y\rightarrow X\) is a function. A linear operator \(T: \mathcal{S}(X, E) \rightarrow \mathcal{S}(Y, F)\) is said to be separating operator if \(\|Tf(y)\| \|Tg(y)\|=0\) for all \(y\in Y\) whenever \(f, g \in \mathcal{S}(X, E)\) satisfy \(\|f(x)\| \|g(x)\|=0\) for all \(x\in X\). In the first part of this paper, the authors study weighted composition operators between different vector-valued Lipschitz spaces and between different vector-valued little Lipschitz spaces as well. The authors provide necessary and sufficient condition for these operators to be compact, and characterize bounded weighted composition operators between these spaces as well. In the second part, the authors study separating operators between vector-valued little Lipschitz spaces lip\(_{\alpha}(X, E)\) and lip\(_{\alpha}(Y, F)\) with compact metric spaces \(X\) and \(Y\). The authors show that a bounded separating linear operator \(T: \text{lip}_{\alpha}(X, E) \rightarrow \text{lip}_{\alpha}(Y, F)\) is a weighted composition operator.