Essential norm of the product of differentiation and composition operators between Bloch-type spaces (Q1949396)

For \(0<\alpha<\infty\), let \(B^\alpha\) be the Bloch-type space of all functions \(f\) holomorphic in the unit disk \(\mathbb D\) such that \(\sup_{z\in \mathbb D} (1-|z|^2)^\alpha|f '(z)|<\infty\). For a holomorphic selfmap \(\varphi\) of \(\mathbb D\), the associated composition operator \(C_\varphi\) is given by \( f\mapsto f\circ\varphi\). The differentiation operator \(D^m\) of order \(m\) is defined as \(f\mapsto f^{(m)}\). The authors study boundedness and compactness of the operators \(C_\phi D^m\) between \(B^\alpha\) and \(B^\beta\) and formulae for the essential norms are derived. The paper is very technical.