Composition operators within singly generated composition \(C^*\)-algebras (Q607868)

Let \(\varphi\) be an analytic self-map of the open unit disk \(\mathbb{D}\) in the complex plane, which is a linear-fractional self-map of \(\mathbb{D}\) that is not an automorphism and \(\varphi(\zeta)=\eta\) for distinct points \(\zeta, \eta\) in the unit circle \(\partial \mathbb{D}\), let \(C_\varphi: f\mapsto f\circ \varphi\) be the composition operator acting as a bounded operator on the Hardy space \(H^2\) and let \(C^*(C_\varphi,K)\) be the unital \(C^*\)-algebra generated by \(C_\varphi\) and the compact operators. An essential question is that ``For which analytic self-maps \(\psi\) of \(\mathbb{D}\) does \(C_\psi\) lie in \(C^*(C_\varphi,K)\)?''. This paper has been written as a sequel of \textit{T.\,L.\thinspace Kriete}, \textit{B.\,D.\thinspace MacCluer} and \textit{J.\,L.\thinspace Moorhouse} [J.~Oper.\ Theory 58, No.\,1, 135--156 (2007; Zbl 1134.47303)]. The authors show that, if \(\psi: \mathbb{D} \to \mathbb{D}\) is analytic and the set \(F(\psi)\) consisting of all points \(\alpha \in \mathbb{D}\) at which \(\psi\) has a finite angular derivative in the sense of Carathéodory (see \textit{C.\,C.\thinspace Cowen} and \textit{B.\,D.\thinspace MacCluer} [``Composition operators on spaces of analytic functions'' (Studies in Advanced Mathematics; Boca Raton:\ CRC Press) (1995; Zbl 0873.47017)]) is empty, then \(C_\psi\) is compact. They also present some necessary conditions for membership in \(C^*(C_\varphi,K)\). They find all linear-fractionals \(\psi\) with \(C_\psi\) in \(C^*(C_\varphi,K)\) as well.