The role of the angle in supercyclic behavior

A fractional linear transformation, mapping the unit disc into itself, gives rise to a weighted composition operator on the Hardy space H 2 .Such operators have been recently used in [11] in connection with an extremal problem from operator theory.In this paper, we investigate the basic properties of these operators and determine their spectra.The results can be compared to those for unweighted composition operators on various spaces [1], [3], [5].

Linear combinations of composition operators induced by linear fractional maps on the infinite polydisk

This is an introductory print on the basic material in the topic of fractional linear maps. It begins with the classical complex analysis material in the complex plane and in the unit disc and segues into a few such topics in advanced linear algebra, geometric function theory, etc. The efficacy of the material and its inroads into many other aspects of classical complex analysis, from operator theory (composition operators on spaces of analytic functions) to automorphisms of unit balls (in spaces of dimension one to those of infinite dimension) and other topics, is extremely useful and ramified. We hope the reader will find it of interest and possibly pursue one of these topics.

The topological structure of the set of (weighted) composition operators has been studied on various function spaces on the unit disc such as Hardy spaces, the space of bounded holomorphic functions, weighted Banach spaces of holomorphic functions with sup-norm, Hilbert Bergman spaces. In this paper we consider this problem for all Bergman spaces $$A_{\alpha }^p$$ with $$p \in (0, \infty )$$ and $$ \alpha \in (-1, \infty )$$ . In this setting we establish a criterion for two composition operators to be linearly connected in the space of composition operators; furthermore, for the space of weighted composition operators, we prove that the set of compact weighted composition operators is path connected, but it is not a component.

We provide a precise description of the lattice of invariant subspaces of composition operators acting on the classical Hardy space, whose inducing symbol is a parabolic non-automorphism.This is achieved with an explicit isomorphism between the Hardy space and the Sobolev Banach algebra W 1,2 [0, ∞) that induces a bijection between the lattice of the composition operator and the closed ideals of W 1,2 [0, ∞).In particular, each invariant subspace of parabolic non-automorphism composition operator always consists of the closed span of a set of eigenfunctions.As a consequence, such composition operators have no non-trivial reducing subspaces.For the sake of completeness, we also include a characterization of the closed ideals of the Banach algebra W 1,2 [0, ∞).Although such a characterization is known, the proof we provide here is somehow different.

The Invariant Subspace Problem (“ISP”) for Hilbert space operators is known to be equivalent to a question that, on its surface, seems surprisingly concrete: For composition operators induced on the Hardy space H 2 by hyperbolic automorphisms of the unit disc, is every nontrivial minimal invariant subspace one dimensional (i.e., spanned by an eigenvector)? In the hope of reviving interest in the contribution this remarkable result might offer to the studies of both composition operators and the ISP, I revisit some known results, weaken their hypotheses and simplify their proofs. Sample results: If φ is a hyperbolic disc automorphism with fixed points at a and β (both necessarily on the unit circle), and C φ the composition operator it induces on H 2, then for every \( f \in \sqrt {(z - \alpha )(z - \beta )} \) H 2, the doubly C φ-cyclic subspace generated by f contains many independent eigenvectors; more precisely, the point spectrum of C φ’s restriction to that subspace intersects the unit circle in a set of positive measure. Moreover, this restriction of C φ is hypercyclic (some forward orbit is dense). Under the stronger restriction \( f \in \sqrt {(z - \alpha )(z - \beta )} \) H p for some p > 2, the point spectrum of the restricted operator contains an open annulus centered at the origin.KeywordsComposition operatorhyperbolic automorphismInvariant Subspace ProblemMathematics Subject Classification (2000)Primary 47B33Secondary 47A15

We prove that the norm of a weighted composition operator on the Hardy space H 2 of the disk is controlled by the norm of the weight function in the de Branges-Rovnyak space as- sociated to the symbol of the composition operator. As a corollary we obtain a new proof of the boundedness of composition operators on H 2 , and recover the standard upper bound for the norm. Sim- ilar arguments apply to weighted Bergman spaces. We also show that the positivity of a generalized de Branges-Rovnyak kernel is sufficient for the boundedness of a given composition operator on the standard functions spaces on the unit ball.

(Communicated by G. Sinnamon) Abstract. Suppose ϕ is an analytic self-map of open unit disk D and w is an analytic func- tion on D. Then a weighted composition operator induced by ϕ with weight w is given by (Ww,ϕ f)(z )= w(z)f(ϕ(z)) ,f orz ∈ D and f analytic on D.W efind a sufficient condition un- der which two composition operators lie in the same path component of C(H 2 ) ,a nd wefind as ufficient condition for the difference of such operators to be compact on H 2 (D) .T hen we provide another example that answers a question raised by Shapiro and Sundberg (18 )n ega- tively. Moreover, we characterize the Hilbert-Schmidt difference of two composition operators on H2(D).

Function spaces and its various applications are subjects of investigation in many research centers and we are glad that this special issue has received the remarkable attention by researchers in these areas. We have received papers from wide range of topics of function spaces such as interpolation methods for stochastic processes spaces, vector optimization problems in Banach spaces, Marcinkiewicz integral operator in Morrey spaces, Hardy’s operator in the variable exponent Lebesgue spaces, and differential equations of weakly parabolic type in Banach spaces. A number of papers are devoted to investigating different kinds of problems in Hardy spaces or Hardy subspaces, for example, Calderon-Zygumnd singular integral operators in Hardy spaces, weighted Hardy spaces related to the Schrodinger operator, and composition operator in hyperbolic Bloch-type spaces. Geometric problems such as modulus of convexity in some Banach sequence spaces, p-uniform convexity, and quniform smoothness in C spaces are also covered by this issue.

We present a unified approach to the problem of characterizing the Fredholm multiplication and composition operators on the Hardy spaceH 2.

We investigate the double commutant property for a composition operator ?? , induced on the Hardy space ?2(?) by a linear fractional self-map ? of the unit disk ?. Our main result is that this property always holds, except when ? is a hyperbolic automorphism or a parabolic automorphism. Further, we show that, in both of the exceptional cases, {??}′′ is the closure of the algebra generated by ?? and ?−1?, either in the weak operator topology, if ? is a hyperbolic automorphism, or surprisingly, in the uniform operator topology, if ? is a parabolic automorphism. Finally, for each type of a linear fractional mapping, we settle the question when any of the algebras involved are equal.

Strictly contractive and positive completions for block matrices

We show that every non-compact weighted composition operator $f \mapsto u\cdot (f\circ\phi)$ acting on a Hardy space $H^p$ for $1 \leq p < \infty$ fixes an isomorphic copy of the sequence space $\ell^p$ and therefore fails to be strictly singular. We also characterize those weighted composition operators on $H^p$ which fix a copy of the Hilbert space $\ell^2$. These results extend earlier ones obtained for unweighted composition operators.

In this paper, we specify what functions induce the bounded composition operators on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) associated with an analytic positive definite function defined on Rd. We prove that only affine transforms can do so in a certain large class of RKHS. Our result covers not only the Paley-Wiener space on the real line, studied in previous works, but also much more general RKHSs corresponding to analytic positive definite functions, where existing methods do not work. Our method only relies on intrinsic properties of the RKHSs, and we establish a connection between the behavior of composition operators and asymptotic properties of the greatest zeros of orthogonal polynomials on a weighted L2-space on the real line. We also investigate the compactness of the composition operators and show that any bounded composition operators cannot be compact in our situation.

Frames by Orbits of Two Operators that Commute