The Bergman space as a Banach algebra (Q2353160)

The Duhamel product of two analytic functions on the unit disc \({\mathbb D}\) is given by \((f\ast g)(z)=\frac{d}{dz}\int_{0}^{z}f(z-t)g(t)\,dt\). Recently, this product has been studied on various spaces of functions and it is known that it is closely related with the Volterra integration operator. In the paper under review, the authors study it in the context of Bergman spaces. For \(p\in (0,\infty)\), let \(L_{a}^{p}\) be the Banach space of all \(p\)-summable analytic functions on the unit disc \({\mathbb D}\) with the norm given by \(\| f\|_p=(\int_{{\mathbb D}}|f(z)|^p\, dA(z))^{1/p}\), where \(dA(z)\) is the normalized Lebesgue measure on \({\mathbb D}\). It turns out that \(L_{a}^{p}\) endowed with the Duhamel product is a unital commutative Banach algebra -- called the Bergman-Duhamel algebra by the authors. It is not hard to see that this algebra has a big radical -- there is only one character on it. The main results of the paper are related to the Volterra operator: its cyclic vectors are characterized; its extended eigenvalues and corresponding extended eigenoperators are determined; its commutant is identified. In the end, some intertwining relations between the Volterra integration operator and composition operators are proved.