Co-isometric weighted composition operators on Hilbert spaces of analytic functions (Q2200285)

Let \(\mathbb{D}\) denote the open unit disk in \(\mathbb{C}\) and let \(H^2(\mathbb{D})\) be the classical Hardy space of analytic functions with square summable coefficients. The authors study the weighted composition operator \(W_{F,\phi}\) given by \(W_{F,\phi}(f) = M_FC_{\phi}f\), where \(\phi\) is an analytic self-map of \(\mathbb{D}\) and the weight function \(F\) is analytic in \(\mathbb{D}\). It is known that \(C_{\phi}: H^2 (\mathbb{D}) \to H^2 (\mathbb{D})\) is normal if and only if \(\phi(z) = cz\) for a constant \(c\), \(|c| \leq 1\). Necessary and sufficient conditions for a weighted composition operator to be co-isometric on a general weighted Hardy space of analytic functions in the unit disk whose reproducing kernel has the usual natural form is studied here. The authors prove that this property is equivalent to the property of being unitary. Following the results, they introduce a specific family of weighted Hardy spaces as the only ones that support non-trivial operators of this kind.