A reproducing kernel thesis for operators on Bergman-type function spaces (Q403311)

The aim of the paper is to show that in a wide variety of classical function spaces, boundedness and compactness properties of operators can be determined by examining only their behaviour on the normalizing reproducing kernels of that spaces (``Reproducing Kernel Thesis'' (RKT) statement). To develop a unified approach to the above problem, the authors define a class of Reproducing Kernel Hilbert spaces, which includes, in particular, both classical Bergman and Bargmann-Fock spaces, as well as their weighted versions on a variety of more general domains. Studying the RKT for boundedness, in particular, the authors show how their general results can be used to deduce known classical results for the boundedness of Toeplitz and Hankel operators. Studying the RKT for compactness, the authors prove first the crucial localization property based on the ideas of Axler and Zheng improved later by Suárez. Then they use this localization property to estimate the essential norm for a large class of operators and, in particular, to prove the RKT for compactness in their general setting.