Hilbert-Schmidt Hankel operators on the Bergman space of planar domains (Q2465111)

Let \(\Omega\) be a bounded multiply connected domain in the complex plane whose boundary consists of \(n\) closed smooth analytic curves \(\gamma_j\), \(j\in\{1,\dots,n\}\), where \(\gamma_j\) are positively oriented and \(\gamma_i\cap\gamma_j=\emptyset\) whenever \(i\neq j\). Suppose that \(\gamma_1\) is the boundary of \({\mathbb C}\setminus\Omega\), that \(\Omega_1\) is the bounded component of \({\mathbb C}\setminus\gamma_1\) and that \(\Omega_j\), where \(j\in\{2,\dots,n\}\), is the unbounded component of \({\mathbb C}\setminus\gamma_j\), while \(\Omega=\cap_{j=1}^n\Omega_j\). With such a domain one can associate a so-called \(\delta\)-partition \(\{p_1,\dots,p_n\}\), where \(p_j:\Omega\to[0,1]\) are sufficiently smooth functions satisfying \(p_1+\dots+p_n=1\) and some additional properties. For \(\varphi\in L^\infty(\Omega)\), put \(\varphi_j=\varphi p_j\). The author studies relations between Hankel operators \(H_\varphi\) and \(H_{\varphi_j}\) on Bergman spaces \(L_a^2(\Omega,d\nu)\) and \(L_a^2(\Omega_j,d\nu)\). The equivalence of the following three statements is the main result of the paper: (1) the operator \(H_\varphi:L_a^2(\Omega,d\nu)\to L^2(\Omega,d\nu)\ominus L_a^2(\Omega,d\nu)\) is Hilbert-Schmidt; (2) for any \(j\in\{1,\dots,n\}\), the operator \(H_{\varphi_j}:L_a^2(\Omega,d\nu)\to L^2(\Omega,d\nu)\ominus L_a^2(\Omega,d\nu)\) is Hilbert-Schmidt; (3) for any \(j\in\{1,\dots,n\}\), the operator \(H_{\varphi_j}:L_a^2(\Omega_j,d\nu)\to L^2(\Omega,d\nu)\ominus L_a^2(\Omega_j,d\nu)\) is Hilbert-Schmidt.