ESSENTIAL NORMS OF PRODUCTS OF WEIGHTED COMPOSITION OPERATORS AND DIFFERENTIATION OPERATORS BETWEEN BANACH SPACES OF ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS∗

Department of Mathematics and Statistics,College of Science,Sultan Qaboos University, P.O.Box 36,P.C.123,Al-Khod,Oman

E-mail:manhas@squ.edu.om

Ruhan ZHAO

Department of Mathematics,State University of New York Brockport,Brockport,NY 14420,USA

E-mail:rzhao@brockport.edu

ESSENTIAL NORMS OF PRODUCTS OF WEIGHTED COMPOSITION OPERATORS AND DIFFERENTIATION OPERATORS BETWEEN BANACH SPACES OF ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS∗

Jasbir Singh MANHAS

Department of Mathematics and Statistics,College of Science,Sultan Qaboos University, P.O.Box 36,P.C.123,Al-Khod,Oman

E-mail:manhas@squ.edu.om

Ruhan ZHAO

Department of Mathematics,State University of New York Brockport,Brockport,NY 14420,USA

E-mail:rzhao@brockport.edu

We obtain several estimates of the essential norms of the products of diferentiation operators and weighted composition operators between weighted Banach spaces of analytic functions with general weights.As applications,we also give estimates of the essential norms of weighted composition operators between weighted Banach space of analytic functions and Bloch-type spaces.

diferentiation operators;weighted composition operators;weighted Banach space of analytic functions;Bloch-type spaces;essential norms

2010 MR Subject Classifcation47B38;47B33

1 Introduction

Let D be the unit disk in the complex plane C,and let H(D)denote the space of analytic functions on D.Let φ be an analytic self-map on D and let ψ∈H(D).The weighted composition operator Wψ,φon H(D)is defned as follows

Weighted composition operators appear in a natural way on diferent settings.For example, it is well-known that isometries on most of the spaces of analytic functions are described as weighted composition operators.For details on isometries on function spaces,we refer to the monographs of Fleming and Jamison([6],[7]).In recent years many authors have started exploring the operator theoretic properties of Wψ,φon various spaces of analytic functions such as the Bloch space,the Bergman spaces,the Hardy spaces and the weighted Banach spaces of analytic functions in terms of the function-theoretic properties of the symbols ψ and φ.The theory of weighted composition operators unifes the theory of multiplication operators and composition operators.For the information on composition and weighted composition operators see,for example,books[5],[18]and[19].

The diferentiation operator D which is defned by Df=f′is typically unbounded on many analytic function spaces.The product of weighted composition operators and diferentiation operators,denoted by DWψ,φand Wψ,φD,respectively,are defned as

for every f∈H(D).

For ψ(z)=1,the operators DCφ=Wφ′,φD and CφD were frst studied by Hibschweiler and Portnoy in[10]and then by Ohno in[16],where boundedness and compactness of DCφbetween Hardy spaces and Bergman spaces were investigated.Later on these operators have been studied by many authors.

For the operators DWψ,φ,in a series of papers,[20],[21],[22]and[23],Stevi´c studied these operators from various spaces into weighted Banach spaces(called weighted-type spaces in these papers)or nth weighted Banach spaces,either on the unit disk or on the unit ball. In a recent paper[14],the authors obtained characterizations of boundedness and compactness of the operator DWψ,φand Wψ,φD between weighted Banach spaces of analytic functions on D with general weights.In this paper we continue this line of research,and obtain estimates of the essential norms of such operators.Recall that the essential norm‖T‖eof a bounded operator T between Banach spaces X and Y is defned as the distance from T to the space of compact operators from X to Y.Hence T is compact if and only if‖T‖e=0.

In Section 2,we introduce some concepts that are needed later.We give estimates of the essential norms in terms of Schwarz-Pick type quotients in Section 3;and estimates of the essential norms in terms of n-th power of φ in Section 4.

2 Preliminaries

Let v be a strictly positive,continuous and bounded function on D.We will call such a function v as a weight function or simply a weight.We defne the general weighted Banach space of analytic functions as follows:

We also defne

For a given weight v its associated weight~v is defned as follows:

for every z∈D.The following condition(L1)introduced by Lusky in[12]is important for our research.

Radial weights which satisfy(L1)are always essential(see[4]).We note here that the standard weights vα(z)=(1-|z|2)α,where α＞0,and the logarithmic weight vβ(z)=(1-log(1-|z|2))β, where β＜0,satisfy condition(L1).We refer to[2],[3],[11]and[12]for more details of the weighted Banach spaces of analytic functions.

The Bloch-type space Bvis defned as follows:

In the following,the notation A≈B means there is a positive constant C such that C-1B≤A≤CB,

3 Essential Norms

In order to prove our result,we need the following result.

for every z∈D.

We note here that,since v satisfes condition(L1),it is essential,and so equation(2.1) holds.Therefore,if we let C~v=kCv,where k is the constant in(2.1),then from equation(3.1)

we obtain

We also need the following lemma.which is essentially given by Montes-Rodr´ıguez in[15].

(i)Each Lnis compact.

ProofThe proof of(i),(ii)and(iv)are the same as in[15].(iii)can be obtained from (ii)by using Cauchy’s formula.We omit the details here.?

Let

The following is our main result.

where C~vis the constant in(3.2)(which only depends on the weight function v).

ProofThe lower estimate.Let{zn}⊂D be a sequence with|φ(zn)|→1 as n→∞, such that

if v is satisfes condition(L1).Let

and defne

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Hence

Taking the infmum on both sides over all compact operators K we obtain

This means that

Now we deal with the term B.Let{gn}be the same sequence given above.By(3.2)we know that

for every z∈D.Hence

Thus

Therefore

By Triangle inequality,and using(3.3),we obtain

Now let Lnbe the operator given in Lemma 3.2.Then

Fix any 0＜t＜1.We write I1as

Hence,applying(3.3)and Lemma 3.2 we obtain

as n→∞.For J2we have

Similarly,we write I2as

Hence,applying(3.4)and Lemma 3.2 we obtain

as n→∞.For K2we have

where C~vis the constant in(3.2).Combining the above inequalities we obtain

Letting n→∞on both sides we get

for every s∈(0,1).Thus

The proof is complete.

Corollary 3.2Let v be a radial weight satisfying condition(L1),and let w be an arbitrary weight.Let Wψ,φbe a bounded operator from to Bw.Then

where C~vis the constant in(3.2)(which only depends on the weight function v).

Let

Similarly to the proof of Theorem 3.1 we obtain the following result for the operator Wψ,φD, and we omit the proof.

Using isometries D and T we immediately obtain

4 Essential Norms in Terms of φn

Recently,Wulan,Zheng and Zhu obtained the following result in[25].

Theorem ALet φ be an analytic self-map of D.Then Cφis compact on the Bloch space B if and only if

The result has been generalized in several papers,in which characterizations of boundedness,compactness and estimates of essential norms of composition and weighted composition operators between Bloch type spaces were obtained.See,for example,[8],[9],[13]and[27]. Here we also give the essential norm estimates for the products of weighted composition operators and diferentiation operators between Banach spaces of analytic functions in terms of φn. We need the following result,due to Montes-Rodr´ıguez(Theorem 2.1 in[15])and Hyv¨arinen, et.al.(Theorem 2.4 in[8]).

Our result will be better stated using the following two integral operators.Let ψ be an analytic function on D.For every f∈H(D),defne

The operators Jψ,sometimes referred as Ces`aro type operators or Riemann-Stieltjes integral operators,were frst used by Ch.Pommerenke in[17]to characterize BMOA functions.They were frst systematically studied by A.Aleman and A.G.Siskakis in[1].They proved that Jψis bounded on the Hardy space Hpif and only if ψ∈BMOA.Thereafter many authorsstudied these operators.The operators Iψ,as companions of Jψ,have been also studied,see, for example,[26].

ProofBy Theorem B,

Hence the result follows from Theorem 3.1.

From(3.5)we immediately obtain

Similarly,by Theorem 3.3 and Theorem B,we immediately obtain the following result.

Again,using isometries D and T we immediately obtain

AcknowledgementsThe second author would like to thank Sultan Qaboos University for the support and hospitality.

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∗Received August 6,2014.The research was supported by SQU Grant No.IG/SCI/DOMS/11/01.