Obstructions for compactness of Hankel operators: compactness multipliers (Q2362700)

Let \(\Omega\) be a smooth bounded pseudoconvex domain in \(\mathbb C^n\) and \(f\in \mathcal C ( \overline \Omega)\). The function \(f\) is called a compactness multiplier on \(\Omega\) if for every \(\epsilon >0\) there is a constant \(C_{\epsilon, f}>0\) such that \(\|fu\|^2 \leq \epsilon ( \| \overline \partial u \|^2 + \| \overline \partial ^* u\|^2) + C_{\epsilon, f} \| u \|^2_{-1}\) holds for each \(u \in {\text{dom}}(\overline \partial) \cap {\text{dom}}(\overline \partial^*) \subset L^2_{(0,q)}(\Omega )\). It is shown that the Hankel operator \(H_f:A^2(\Omega) \longrightarrow L^2(\Omega)\) is compact, if \(f\) is a compactness multiplier, where \(H_f(u)=(I-P)(fu)\), \(u \in A^2(\Omega)\) and \(P\) is the Bergman projection. In addition, the notion of compactness multipliers is generalized to vector fields and matrices and the authors show that the Hankel operator \(H_{{\text{det}}\mathcal L}\) is compact, where \(\Omega\) is a smooth bounded pseudoconvex domain admitting a smooth plurisubharmonic defining function \(r\) such that \(|dr]=1 \) on \(b\Omega\) and \(\mathcal L\) is the complex Hessian matrix of \(r\).