Essential norms of weighted composition operators on Müntz spaces (Q2389255)

Let \(M^{\infty}_{\Lambda}\) denote the Müntz space. For continuous functions \(\varphi:[0,1] \rightarrow [0,1]\) and \(\psi:[0,1] \rightarrow {\mathbb C}\), let \(C_{\varphi}\),\(T_{\psi}\) denote, respectively, the composition and multiplication operators on \(C([0,1])\). In this paper, the author shows that the composition operator \(T_{\psi} \circ C_{\varphi} : M^{\infty}_{\Lambda} \rightarrow C([0,1])\) is compact if and only if \(\psi =0 \) on \(\partial (\psi^{-1}([1]))\). It is also shown that the essential norm of the composition operator is equal to the supremum of \(|\psi|\) on the boundary.