Essential norm of composition operators on Banach spaces of Hölder functions (Q657143)

Summary: Let \((X, d)\) be a pointed compact metric space, let \(0 < \alpha < 1\), and let \(\varphi : X \rightarrow X\) be a base point preserving Lipschitz map. We prove that the essential norm of the composition operator \(C_\varphi\) induced by the symbol \(\varphi\) on the spaces \(\text{lip}_0 (X, d^\alpha)\) and \(\text{Lip}_0 (X, d^\alpha)\) is given by the formula \(\| C_\varphi \|_e = {\displaystyle \lim_{t \to 0}} \sup_{0<d(x,y)<t} (d(\varphi(x), \varphi(y))^\alpha / d(x, y)^\alpha)\) whenever the dual space \(\text{lip}_0 (X, d^\alpha)^\ast\) has the approximation property. This happens, in particular, when \(X\) is an infinite compact subset of a finite-dimensional normed linear space.