Multiplication operators on the Lipschitz space of a tree

DOI10.1007/S00020-010-1824-5MaRDI QIDQ607773zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Flavia Colonna, Glenn R. Easley

Publication date 3 December 2010

Published in Integral Equations and Operator Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00020-010-1824-5

zbMATH Keywords

Lipschitz space multiplication operators trees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Linear operators on function spaces (general) (47B38)

Review text

The authors study the multiplication operators \(M_\psi\), \(f\mapsto \psi f\), on the Banach space \(\mathcal L\) of Lipschitz functions \((T,d) \to \mathbb C\), where \(T\) is an infinite rooted tree, \(d(u,v)\) is the number of edges linking the vertices \(u, v\) of \(T\) and \(\psi: T \to \mathbb C\) is a given map. The norm of \(f \in \mathcal L\) is \(\| f\| = | f(o)| + \| Df\|_\infty\), where \(o\) is the root of \(T\) and \(Df(v) = | f(v) - f(v^{-})|\) for \(v \neq o\), \(Df(o) = 0\). Above \(v^{-}\) is the parent of \(v \neq o\). Put \(| v| = d(v,o)\) for \(v \in T\). Sample results: (i) \(M_\psi\) is a bounded operator on \(\mathcal L\) if and only if \(\psi(T)\) is bounded and \(\sup_{v\neq o} | v | D\psi (v)\) is finite. (ii) The essential norm \(\| M_\psi\|_e\) of \(M_\psi\) on \(\mathcal L\) satisfies the sharp estimates \[ \max \{A(\psi),(1/2)B(\psi)\} \leq \| M_\psi\|_e \leq A(\psi) + B(\psi) \] whenever \(M_\psi\) is bounded on \(\mathcal L\). Here, \[ A(\psi) = \lim_{n\to\infty} \sup_{| v| \geq n} | \psi(v)| \quad\text{and}\quad B(\psi) = \lim_{n\to\infty} \sup_{| v| \geq n} | v| D\psi(v). \] In particular, \(M_\psi\) is a compact operator on \(\mathcal L\) if and only if \(\lim\limits_{| v| \to \infty} \psi(v) = 0\) and \(\lim\limits_{| v| \to \infty} | v| D\psi(v) = 0\). (iii) The only isometric multiplication operators \(M_\psi\) on \(\mathcal L\) are those for which \(\psi\) is a constant of modulus \(1\). The same results hold for multiplication operators \(M_\psi\) on the little Lipschitz space \(\mathcal L_0 = \{f \in \mathcal L: Df(v) \to 0 \text{ as } | v| \to \infty\}\).

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