Toeplitz operators and Carleson measures in strongly pseudoconvex domains (Q694760)

This interesting paper is motivated by the problem of finding mapping properties of Toeplitz operators acting on the Bergman space \(A^p(D)\) on a strongly pseudoconvex domain \(D\) in \(\mathbb{C}^n\). The Bergman space \(A^p(D)\) is the space of all holomorphic functions on \(D\) that also belong to \(L^p(D).\) The Bergman projection \(P\) is the integral operator \[ Pf(z) = \int_D f(w)K(z, w) dV(w) \] where \(K(z, w)\) is the Bergman kernel and \(f\in L^p(D), 1 < p < \infty\). For a symbol \(u\in L^{\infty}(D)\), the Toeplitz operator \(T_u\) is defined as \[ T_ug(z) = \int_D u(w)g(w)K(z, w) dV(w). \] \textit{Ž. Čučković} and \textit{J. McNeal} [Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 22, No. 3, 851--866 (2006; Zbl 1124.32004)] studied Toeplitz operators with symbol \(\delta^{\eta}\), where \(\delta(w) = \text{dist} (w, \partial D)\) and \(\eta > 0\). They showed that in certain cases the Toeplitz operator \(T_{\delta^{\eta}}\) maps \(A^p(D)\) into \(A^{p+G}(D)\), where \(G\) is a positive gain that dependes on \(n, p\) and \(\eta\). They also showed the gain is sharp in dimension \(n = 1\). The authors of this paper generalize this result by studying Toeplitz operators whose symbols are Carleson measures. First they give a geometric characterization of Carleson measures of weighted Bergman spaces on \(D\) in terms of Kobayashi balls \(B(z, r)\). Given \(\theta > 0\), a finite positive Borel measure \(\mu\) is called a \(\theta\)-Carleson measure if for all \(r\in (0, 1)\) there is a constant \(C_r > 0\) such that \[ \mu(B(z, r)) \leq C_r V(B(z, r))^{\theta} \] for all \(z \in D\). In its simplest form, the authors show that for \(1 < p < r < \infty\), \(T_{\mu}\) maps \(A^p(D)\) into \(A^r(D)\) continuously if and only if \(\mu\) is \((1 + \frac {1}{p} - \frac {1}{r})\)-Carleson. They also show the result is sharp in all dimensions.