The essential norm of a weighted composition operator on BMOA (Q2512975)

Let \(\mathbb{D}\) be the open unit disk in the complex plane \(\mathbb{C}\) and let \(H(\mathbb{D})\) be the space of analytic functions on \(\mathbb{D}\). Let \(\psi\) in \(H(\mathbb{D})\) and let \(\varphi\) be an analytic self-map of \(\mathbb{D}\); these maps induce a linear weighted composition operator \(W_{\psi, \varphi}\) defined on \(H(\mathbb{D})\) by \[ (W_{\psi, \varphi}f)(z)= (M_{\psi}C_{\varphi}f)(z)=\psi(z) f(\varphi(z)), \quad z\in\mathbb{D}, \] where \(M_{\psi}\) is the operator of pointwise multiplication by \(\psi\) and \(C_{\varphi}\) is the composition operator \(f\mapsto f\circ\varphi\). Let \(1\leq p<\infty\), the classical Hardy space \(H^p\) consists of functions \(f\in H(\mathbb{D})\) that satisfy \[ \|f\|_{p}= \lim_{r\rightarrow 1}\left(\int_{0}^{2\pi} |f(re^{i\theta})|^p \frac{d\theta}{2\pi}\right)^{1/p}<\infty. \] The analytic function \(f\in H^2\) belongs to the space BMOA provided that the BMOA seminorm \[ \|f\|_{*}=\sup_{a\in\mathbb{D}}\|T[f, a]\|_2 \] is finite, where \(T[f, a]=f\circ\sigma_{a} - f(a)\) and \(\sigma_{a}(z)=(a-z)/(1-\overline{a}z)\). Moreover, the closed subspace VMOA consists of the analytic functions having vanishing mean oscillation on \(\partial\mathbb{D}\); that is, \(f\in\mathrm{VMOA}\) such that \(\displaystyle \lim_{|a|\rightarrow 1}= \|T[f, a]\|_2 =0\). In this paper, the authors provide a new estimate for the norm of a weighted composition operator \(W_{\psi, \varphi}\) on the space BMOA and provide an estimate for the essential norm of \(W_{\psi, \varphi}\) on the space BMOA as well. In fact, the main two results are Theorem 1 and Theorem 2: suppose that \(W_{\psi, \varphi}\) is bounded on BMOA, then \[ \|W_{\psi, \varphi}\|_{L(\mathrm{BMOA})} \asymp |\psi(0)|L(\varphi(0)) + \sup_{n}\|\psi\varphi^{n}\|_{*} + \sup_{a\in\mathbb{D}}\beta(a), \] and \[ \|W_{\psi, \varphi}\|_{e,\mathrm{BMOA}} \asymp \limsup_{n\rightarrow\infty}\|\psi\varphi^{n}\|_{*} + \limsup_{|\varphi(a)|\rightarrow 1}\beta(a), \] where \(\beta(a)= L(\varphi(a)) \|\psi\circ\sigma_{a}-\psi(a)\|_2\), and \(L(a)=\log\frac{2}{1-|a|^2}\). As a consequence of these theorems, the authors give the following estimates. Suppose that \(M_{\psi}\) is bounded on BMOA, then \[ \|W_{\psi, \varphi}\|_{e,\mathrm{BMOA}} \asymp \limsup_{n\rightarrow\infty}\|\psi z^{n}\|_{*} + \limsup_{|a|\rightarrow 1} L(a)\|T[\psi, a]\|_2. \] Moreover, if \(W_{\psi, \varphi}\) is bounded on VMOA, then \[ \|W_{\psi, \varphi}\|_{e,\mathrm{BMOA}} \asymp \|W_{\psi, \varphi}\|_{e,\mathrm{VMOA}}\asymp \limsup_{|\varphi(a)|\rightarrow 1} \alpha(a) + \limsup_{|\varphi(a)|\rightarrow 1}\beta(a), \] where \(\alpha(a)= |\psi(a)| \|\sigma_{\varphi(a)}\circ\varphi\circ\sigma_{a}\|_2\).