Litte Hankel operators between vector-valued Bergman spaces on the unit ball (Q2032323)

The paper concerns the boundedness and the compactness of the little Hankel operators with operator valued symbols between different weighted vector-valued Bergman spaces on the open unit ball \(\mathbb{B}_{n}\) in \(\mathbb{C}^{n}\). The vector-valued Bergman space \(A_{\alpha}^{p}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\), \(X\) is a complex Banach space, is defined by \[ A_{\alpha}^{p}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)=L_{\nu_{\alpha}}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\cap \mathcal{H}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X). \] The symbol \(L_{\nu_{\alpha}}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\) denotes the space of \(X\)-valued functions on the ball, which are Bochner integrable with respect to the measure \((1-|z|^{2})^{\alpha}d\nu\), \(\alpha>-1\) and \(\nu\) is Lebesgue measure in \(\mathbb{C}^{n}\). The symbol \(\mathcal{H}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\) stands for the space of all holomorphic \(X\)-valued functions. The little Hankel operator, denoted \(h_{b}\) is defined for \(z\in \mathbb{B}_{n}\) by \[ h_{b}f(z):=\int_{\mathbb{B}_{n}}\frac{b(w)\overline{f(w)}}{(1-\langle z,w\rangle)^{n+1+\alpha}}d\nu_{\alpha}(z) \] for \(f\in H^{\infty}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\) -- the space of all bounded \(X\)-valued holomorphic functions on \(\mathbb{B}_{n}\). The symbol \(b\) is an operator-valued function \(b\colon \mathbb{B}_{n}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}(\bar{X},Y)\). Here, \(\bar{X}\) is the complex conjugate of the Banach space \(X\). The symbol \(b\) is assumed to satisfy the growth condition \[ \int_{\mathbb{B}_{n}}\frac{\|b(w)\|_{\mathcal{L}(\bar{X},Y)}}{|1-\langle z,w\rangle|^{n+1+\alpha}}<\infty. \] Theorem 3 of the paper concerns the dual space \((A_{\alpha}^{p}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X))^{\star}\), \(0<p\leq 1\) of the weighted \(X\)-valued Bergman space. It is shown that this space can be identified with the space \(\Gamma_{\gamma}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X^{\star})\) with \(\gamma=(n+1+\alpha)\Bigl{(}\frac{1}{p}-1\Bigr{)}\). The space \(\Gamma_{\gamma}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\) is the space of all \(X\)-valued holomorphic functions \(f\colon \mathbb{B}_{n}\rightarrow X\) such that \[ \|f\|_{\gamma,X}=\|f(0)\|_{X}+\sup_{z\in \mathbb{B}_{n}}(1-|z|^{2})^{k-\gamma}\|N^{k}f(z)\|_{X}<\infty \] for an integer \(k>\gamma\). The symbol \(N\) stands for the radial derivative and \(N^{k}=N\circ \dots \circ N\), \(k\)-times. It is shown (Theorem 4 and Corollary 5) that the little Hankel operator \(h_{b}\) extends to a bounded operator from \(A_{\alpha}^{p}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\), \(0<p\leq 1\) and \(\alpha>-1\), into \(A_{\alpha}^{q}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\) for some positive \(q<1\) if and only if its symbol \(b\) belongs to \(\Gamma_{\gamma}(\mathbb{B}_{n},\mathcal{L}(\bar{X},Y))\), where \(\gamma=(n+1+\alpha)\Bigl{(}\frac{1}{p}-1\Bigr{)}\). For these parameters the little Hankel operator \(h_{b}\) extends to a bounded operator from \(A_{\alpha}^{p}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\) into \(A^{1}_{\alpha}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\) if and only if for some integer \(k>\gamma\), \[ \|N^{k}b(w)\|_{\mathcal{L}(\bar{X},Y)}\leq \frac{C}{(1-|w|^{2})^{k-\gamma}}\Bigl{(}\log\frac{1}{1-|w|^{2}}\Bigr{)}^{-1}, w\in \mathbb{B}_{n}. \] This is Theorem 6 in the paper. For \(1<p\leq q<\infty\) the little Hankel operator \(h_{b}\colon A_{\alpha}^{p}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\rightarrow A_{\alpha}^{q}(\mathbb{B}_{n},Y)\) is bounded (Theorem 7) if and only if \(b\in \Lambda_{\gamma_{0}}(\mathbb{B}_{n},\mathcal{L}(\bar{X},Y))\), where \(\gamma_{0}=(n+1+\alpha)\Bigl{(}\frac{1}{p}-\frac{1}{q}\Bigr{)}\). The generalized vector-valued Lipschitz space \(\Lambda_{\gamma}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\) consists of vector-valued holomorphic functions \(f\) in \(\mathbb{B}_{n}\) such that for some integer \(k>\gamma\) \[ \|f\|_{\Lambda_{\gamma}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)}=\sup_{z\in \mathbb{B}_{n}}(1-|z|^{2})^{k-\gamma}\|R^{\alpha,k}f(z)\|_{X} \] The operator \(R^{\alpha,t}\) is defined in the following way \[ R^{\alpha,t}f(z):=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{\Gamma(n+1+\alpha)\Gamma(n+1+k+\alpha+t)}{\Gamma(n+1+\alpha+t)\Gamma(n+1+k+\alpha)}f_{k}(z), \] when \(f=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}f_{k}(z)\) is the homogeneous expansion and \(f_{k}\) are homogeneous holomorphic polynomials of degree \(k\) with coefficients in \(X\). If \(X\) and \(Y\) are reflexive complex Banach spaces then \(h_{b}\colon A_{\alpha}^{p}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\rightarrow A_{\alpha}^{q}(\mathbb{B}_{n},Y)\), \(1<p\leq q<\infty\), \(\alpha>-1\) is a compact operator if and only if \(\Lambda_{\gamma_{0},0}(\mathbb{B}_{n},\mathcal{K}(\bar{X},Y))\) denotes the generalized little vector-valued Lipschitz space and \(\gamma_{0}=(n+1+\alpha)\Bigl{(}\frac{1}{p}-\frac{1}{q}\Bigr{)}\). Also, \(\mathcal{K}(\bar{X},Y)\) is the space of compact operators from \(\bar{X}\) into \(Y\). A function \(f\in \Lambda_{\gamma}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\) belongs to \(\Lambda_{\gamma,0}(\mathbb{B}_{n},X)\) provided \[ \lim_{|z|\rightarrow 1-}(1-|z|^{2})^{k-\gamma}\|R^{\alpha,k}f(z)\|_{X}=0. \] This is Theorem 8. Section 1.5 contains a discussion of related problems and known results.