Essential spectra of quasi-parabolic composition operators on Hardy spaces of the poly-disc (Q2873576)

A quasi-parabolic composition operator on \(H^2(\mathbb D)\) is a composition operator with symbol NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\frac{2iz+ \psi(z)(1-z)}{2i+\psi(z)(1-z)}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\psi\) is analytic and bounded on the disc with \(\Im (\psi(z))>\delta>0\). This extends, for \(\psi(z)=a\) with \(\Im(a)>0\), the classical parabolic linear fractional transformation with a fixed point \(\xi=1\) at the boundary. The author introduced such a notion and studied some properties in his article [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 377, No. 2, 771--791 (2011; Zbl 1225.47028)]. In this paper the situation for the bi-disc setting is considered and the author looks at composition operators in \(H^2(\mathbb D^2)\) induced by symbols NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE\[NEWLINE\phi(z_1,z_2)=\bigg(\frac{2iz_1+ \psi_1(z_1,z_2)(1-z_1)}{2i+\psi_1(z_1,z_2)(1-z_1)}, \frac{2iz_2+ \psi_2(z_1,z_2)(1-z_2)}{2i+\psi_2(z_1,z_2)(1-z_2)}\bigg)NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\psi_1, \psi_2\) are analytic and bounded on the bi-disc with \(\Im (\psi_j(z_1,z_2))>\delta>0\) for \(j=1,2\). He uses the Caley transform to work on the two-dimensional half-plane instead of the bi-disc to show that the symbols above define bounded operators in \(H^2(\mathbb D^2)\). Moreover, whenever \(\psi_j\in (QC\otimes QC)\cap H^\infty(\mathbb D^2)\), he manages to prove that the essential spectra \(\sigma_e(C_\phi)\) contains \(0\) and the set of points \(e^{iz_1t_1+i z_2t_2}\) with \(t_j\geq 0\) and \(z_j\in \mathcal C_{(1,1)}(\psi_j)\), \(j=1,2\), where \(\mathcal C_{(1,1)}(\psi_j)\) is the set of custer points of \(\psi_j\) at \((1,1)\).