Unified approach to spectral properties of multipliers (Q2663379)

The main object of this paper is to extend a result by Cao, He, and Zhu, characterizing the spectrum and essential spectrum of the multiplication operator \(Mu\) on the Hardy-Sobolev Hilbert space, to Bergman-Sobolev and Bloch-type spaces of the open unit ball \({\mathbb B}^n\) of \({\mathbb C}^n\). Let \((X({\mathbb B}^n), \|\cdot\|_X)\) and \((Y({\mathbb B}^n),\|\cdot\|_Y)\) be Banach space of analytic functions on the unit ball in \({\mathbb C}^n\), \({\mathbb B}^n\), containing the constants . Assume that the spaces \(X({\mathbb B}^n)\) and \(Y({\mathbb B}^n)\) satisfy the three conditions below: \begin{itemize} \item[1.] The topologies induced by \(\|\cdot\|_X\) and \(\|\cdot\|_Y\) are both finer than the compact-open topology \(\tau_0\). In particular, for every \(z\in {\mathbb B}^n\), the evaluation functional \(\delta_z(f)=f(z)\) is a bounded linear functional on both \(X({\mathbb B}^n)\) and \(Y({\mathbb B}^n)\). \item[2.] For some \(N\in {\mathbb N}\), \[ \|f\|_X\simeq |f(0)|+\|R^N f\|_X, \quad f\in X({\mathbb B}^n). \] \item[3.] \(H^\infty({\mathbb B}^n) \subset M(Y({\mathbb B}^n))\), the space of pointwise multipliers on \(Y({\mathbb B}^n)\), given by \[ M(Y({\mathbb B}^n))=\{ u \in H({\mathbb B}^n);\, uf\in Y({\mathbb B}^n),\, f\in Y({\mathbb B}^n)\}. \] \end{itemize} These spaces include the Bergman-Sobolev spaces and Bloch-type spaces on the unit ball. The main result in this paper is Theorem: Assume that conditions (i) to (iii) are satisfied and let \(M_u : X({\mathbb B}^n) \to X({\mathbb B}^n)\) be the multiplication operator generated by \(u\in M(X({\mathbb B}^n))\). Then, the spectrum of \(M_u\) is given by \(\sigma( M_u)=\overline{u({\mathbb B}^n)}\).