In this paper we discuss compactness of the canonical solution operator to d-bar on weigthed L^2- spaces on C^n. For this purpose we apply ideas which were used for the Witten Laplacian in the real case and various methods of spectral theory of these operators. We also point out connections to the theory of Dirac and Pauli operators.
In this paper we discuss compactness estimates for the $\bar \partial $-Neumann problem in the setting of weighted $L^2$-spaces on $\mathbb{C}^n.$ For this purpose we use a version of the Rellich - Lemma for weighted Sobolev spaces.
As an application of a new characterization of compactness of the $\bar\partial $-Neumann operator we derive a sufficient condition for compactness of the $\bar\partial $- Neumann operator on $(0,q)$-forms in weighted $L^2$-spaces on $\mathbb{C}^n.$
This paper surveys the theory of compactness of the d-bar-Neumann problem. It also contains several results which improve upon what was previously known.
We discuss compactness of the d-bar-Neumann operator in the setting of weighted L^2-spaces on C^n.$ For this purpose we use a description of relatively compact subsets of L^2- spaces. We also point out how to use this method to show that property (P) implies compactness for the d-bar-Neumann operator on a smoothly bounded pseudoconvex domain and mention an abstract functional analysis characterization of compactness of the d-bar-Neumann operator.
This paper characterises the boundedness and compactness of Agler--McCarthy monomial operators by reducing them to weighted composition operators and deriving explicit Carleson measure criteria on the half-plane. The results are illustrated by examples.
For smooth bounded pseudoconvex domains in $mathbb{C}^{2}$, we provide geometric conditions on (the points of infinite type in) the boundary which imply compactness of the $\bar{\partial}$-Neumann operator. It is noteworthy that the proof of compactness does \emph{not} proceed via verifying the known potential theoretic sufficient conditions.
We consider Volterra-type integration operators $T_g$ between Bergman spaces induced by weights $ω$ satisfying a doubling property. We derive estimates for the operator norms, essential and weak essential norms of $T_g: A_ω^p \to A_ω^q$, $0<p\leq q<\infty$. In particular, the operator $T_g: A_ω^1\to A_ω^1$ is weakly compact if and only if it is compact.
We provide geometric conditions on the set of boundary points of infinite type of a smooth bounded pseudoconvex domain in $\mathbb{C}^{n}$ which imply that the $\bar{\partial}$-Neumann operator is compact. These conditions are formulated in terms of certain short time flows in suitable complex tangential directions. It is noteworthy that compactness is \emph{not} established via the known potential theoretic sufficient conditions. Our results generalize to $\mathbb{C}^{n}$ the corresponding $\mathbb C^{2}$ results due to the second author.
The boundedness and compactness of weighted composition operators on the Hardy space ${\mathcal H}^2$ of the unit disc is analysed. Particular reference is made to the case when the self-map of the disc is an inner function. Schatten-class membership is also considered; as a result, stronger forms of the two main results of a recent paper of Gunatillake are derived. Finally, weighted composition operators on weighted Bergman spaces $\mathcal{A}^2 α(\mathbb{D})$ are considered, and the results of Harper and Smith, linking their properties to those of Carleson embeddings, are extended to this si…
We discuss compactness of the d-bar-Neumann operator in the setting of weighted L^2-spaces on b C^n. In addition we describe an approach to obtain the compactness estimates for the d-bar-Neumann operator. For this purpose we have to define appropriate weighted Sobolev spaces and prove an appropriate Rellich - Kondrachov lemma.
In this paper we study the boundedness and compactness characterizations of the commutator of Cauchy type integrals $\mathcal C$ on a bounded strongly pseudoconvex domain $D$ in $C^n$ with boundary $bD$ satisfying the minimum regularity condition $C^{2}$ based on the recent result of Lanzani-Stein and Duong-Lacey-Li-Wick-Wu. We point out that in this setting the Cauchy type integral $\mathcal C$ is the sum of the essential part $\mathcal{C}^\sharp$ which is a Calderón-Zygmund operator and a remainder $\mathcal R$ which is no longer a Calderón-Zygmund operator. We show that the commutator $[b, …
We show that a complex manifold M in the boundary of a smooth bounded pseudoconvex domain in C^n is an obstruction to compactness of the d-bar-Neumann operator on the domain, provided that at some point of M, the Levi form has the maximal possible rank n-1-dim(M) (i.e. the domain is strictly pseudoconvex in the directions transverse to M). In particular, an analytic disc is an obstruction, provided that at some point of the disc, the Levi form has only one zero eigenvalue. We also show that a boundary point where the Levi form has only one zero eigenvalue can be picked up by the plurisubharmon…
We prove that on smooth bounded pseudoconvex Hartogs domains in $\mathbb{C}^2$ compactness of the $\bar{\partial}$-Neumann operator is equivalent to compactness of all Hankel operators with symbols smooth on the closure of the domain.
We show that Property $(P)$ of $\partialΩ$, compactness of the $\bar{\partial}$-Neumann operators $N_1$, and compactness of Hankel operator on a smooth bounded pseudoconvex Hartogs domain $Ω={\{(z, w_1, w_2,\dots, w_n) \in \mathbb{C}^{n+1} \mid\sum_{k=1}^{n} |w_k|^2 < e^{-2φ(z)}, z\in\mathit{D}\}}$ are equivalent, where $D$ is a smooth bounded connected open set in $\mathbb{C}$.
Let X be a Hermitian complex space of pure dimension n. We show that the d-bar-Neumann operator on (p,q)-forms is compact at isolated singularities of X if q>0 and p+q is not equal to n-1 or n. The main step is the construction of compact solution operators for the d-bar-equation on such spaces which is based on a general characterization of compactness in function spaces on singular spaces, and that leads also to a criterion for compactness of more general Green operators on singular spaces.
The d-bar-Neumann operator on (0,q)-forms ($1\le q \le n$) on a bounded convex domain Omega in C^n is compact if and only if the boundary of Omega contains no complex analytic (equivalently: affine) variety of dimension greater than or equal to q.
Let $Ω\subset\C^n$ be a bounded smooth pseudoconvex domain. We show that compactness of the complex Green operator $G_{q}$ on $(0,q)$-forms on $bΩ$ implies compactness of the $\bar{\partial}$-Neumann operator $N_{q}$ on $Ω$. We prove that if $1 \leq q \leq n-2$ and $bΩ$ satisfies $(P_q)$ and $(P_{n-q-1})$, then $G_{q}$ is a compact operator (and so is $G_{n-1-q}$). Our method relies on a jump type formula to represent forms on the boundary, and we prove an auxiliary compactness result for an `annulus' between two pseudoconvex domains. Our results, combined with the known characterization of co…
We derive a necessary condition for compactness of the weighted $\overline\partial$-Neumann operator on the space $L^2(\mathbb C^n,e^{-φ})$, under the assumption that the corresponding weighted Bergman space of entire functions has infinite dimension. Moreover, we compute the essential spectrum of the complex Laplacian for decoupled weights, $φ(z) = φ_1(z_1) + \dotsb + φ_n(z_n)$, and investigate (non-) compactness of the $\overline\partial$-Neumann operator in this case. More can be said if every $Δφ_j$ defines a nontrivial doubling measure.
We study the asymptotic behavior, in a ``semi-classical limit'', of the first eigenvalues (i.e. the groundstate energies) of a class of Schrödinger operators with magnetic fields and the relationship of this behavior with compactness in the $\bar\partial$-Neumann problem on Hartogs domains in $\C^2$
We establish compactness estimates for $\bar{\partial}_{M}$ on a compact pseudoconvex CR-submanifold $M$ of $\mathbb{C}^{n}$ of hypersurface type that satisfies the (analogue of the) geometric sufficient conditions for compactness of the $\bar{\partial}$-Neumann operator given by the authors earlier. These conditions are formulated in terms of certain short time flows in complex tangential directions.
We study the boundedness and compactness of the generalized Volterra integral operator on weighted Bergman spaces with doubling weights on the unit disk. A generalized Toeplitz operator is defined and the boundedness, compactness and Schatten class of this operator are investigated on the Hilbert weighted Bergman space. As an application, Schatten class membership of generalized Volterra integral operators are also characterized. Finally, we also get the characterizations of Schatten class membership of generalized Toeplitz operator and generalized Volterra integral operators on the Hardy spac…
We obtain criteria for the boundedness and compactness of weighted composition operators between different Fock spaces in $\mathbb{C}^n$. We also give estimates for essential norm of these operators.
In this paper we study the compactness of operators on the Bergman space of the unit ball and on very generally weighted Bargmann-Fock spaces in terms of the behavior of their Berezin transforms and the norms of the operators acting on reproducing kernels. In particular, in the Bergman space setting we show how a vanishing Berezin transform combined with certain (integral) growth conditions on an operator $T$ are sufficient to imply that the operator is compact. In the weighted Bargmann-Fock space setting we show that the reproducing kernel thesis for compactness holds for operators satisfying…
In this paper, a new characterization is provided for the boundedness, compactness and essential norm of the difference of two weighted composition operators on weighted-type spaces in the unit ball of $\mathbb{C}^n$.
In this article we characterize the boundedness and compactness of a Toeplitz-type operator on weighted Bergman spaces satisfying the so-called Bekolle-Bonami condition in terms of the Berezin transform.
The purpose of this paper is to systematically study compactness and essential norm properties of operators on a very general class of weighted Fock spaces over $\C$. In particular, we obtain rather strong necessary and sufficient conditions for a wide class of operators (which includes operators in the Toeplitz algebra generated by bounded symbols) to be compact and we obtain related estimates on the essential norm of such operators. Finally, we discuss interesting open problems related to our results, and in particular discuss the possibility of extending our results to other generally weigh…
Compactness of the d-bar Neumann operator is studied for weakly pseudoconvex bounded Hartogs domains in two dimensions. A nonsmooth example is constructed in which condition (P) fails to hold, yet the Neumann operator is compact. The main result, in contrast, is that for smoothly bounded Hartogs domains, condition (P) of Catlin and Sibony is equivalent to compactness. The analyses of both compactness and condition (P) boil down to properties of the lowest eigenvalues of certain sequences of Schrodinger operators, with and without magnetic fields, parametrized by a Fourier variable resulting fr…
We study weighted composition operators acting between Fock spaces. The following results are obtained: (1) Criteria for the boundedness and compactness; (2) Characterizations of compact differences and essential norm; (3) Complete descriptions of path connected components and isolated points of the space of composition operators and the space of nonzero weighted composition operators.
In this paper, we give two new characterizations for the boundedness and compactness of the difference of two weighted composition operators acting from $H^\infty$ to the Bloch space.
In this paper, we give some estimates for the essential norm and a new characterization for the boundedness and compactness of weighted composition operators from weighted Bergman spaces and Hardy spaces to the Bloch space.
In this paper, we study the boundedness and compactness of the differences of two weighted composition operators acting from $α$-Bloch space to $β$-Bloch space on the open unit disk. This study has a relationship to the topological structure of weighted composition from $α$-Bloch space to $β$-Bloch space.
By considering intrinsic geometric conditions, we introduce a new class of domains in complex Euclidean space. This class is invariant under biholomorphism and includes strongly pseudoconvex domains, finite type domains in dimension two, convex domains, $\mathbb{C}$-convex domains, and homogeneous domains. For this class of domains, we show that compactness of the $\bar{\partial}$-Neumann operator on $(0,q)$-forms is equivalent to the boundary not containing any $q$-dimensional analytic varieties (assuming only that the boundary is a topological submanifold). We also prove, for this class of d…
We study a complex valued version of the Sobolev inequalities and its relationship to compactness of the d-bar-Neumann operator. For this purpose we use an abstract characterization of compactness derived from a general description of precompact subsets in L^2-spaces. Finally we remark that the d-bar-Neumann operator can be continuously extended provided a subelliptic estimate holds.
We found several new equivalent characterizations for the boundedness and compactness of the differences of weighted differentiation composition operators from Bloch-type space to weighted-type space. Especially, we estimated its essential norm in terms of the $n$-th power of the induced analytic self-maps on the unit disk.
We give some new estimates for the norm and essential norm of a weighted composition operator on the Bloch space. As corollaries, we obtain some new characterizations of the boundedness and compactness of a weighted composition operator on the Bloch space.
The boundedness and compactness of weighted composition operators from $H^\infty$ to the Bloch space in the unit ball of Cn are investigated in this paper. In particular, some new characterizations for the boundedness and the essential norm of weighted composition operators are given.
In this paper, the boundedness and compactness of the difference of composition-differentiation operators $D_φ-D_ψ$ acting from Hardy spaces $H^p$ to weighted Bergman spaces $A^q_α$ are completely characterize for all $0<p,q<\infty$.
When the weight $μ$ is more general than normal, the complete characterizations in terms of the symbol $g$ and weights for the conditions of the boundedness and compactness of $T_g: H^{\infty}_ν\rightarrow H^{\infty}_μ$ and $S_g: H^{\infty}_ν\rightarrow H^{\infty}_μ$ are still unknown. Smith et al. firstly gave the sufficient and necessary conditions for the boundedness of Volterra type operators on Banach spaces of bounded analytic functions when the symbol functions are univalent. In this paper, continuing their lines of investigations, we give the complete characterizations of the condition…
We prove upper pointwise estimates for the Bergman kernel of the weighted Fock space of entire functions in $L^2(e^{-2ϕ})$ where $ϕ$ is a subharmonic function with $Δϕ$ a doubling measure. We derive estimates for the canonical solution operator to the inhomogeneous Cauchy-Riemann equation and we characterize the compactness of this operator in terms of $Δϕ$.
In this paper, we investigate the boundedness, compactness, essential norm and the Schatten class of weighted composition operators $uC_φ$ on Bergman type spaces $A_ω^p $ with double weight $ω$. Let $X=\{u\in H(D): uC_φ:A_ω^p\to A_ω^p \mbox{ is bounded}\}.$ For some regular weights $ω$, we obtain that $X=H^\infty$ if and only if $φ$ is a finite Blaschke product.
The well-known Axler-Zheng theorem characterizes compactness of finite sums of finite products of Toeplitz operators on the unit disk in terms of the Berezin transform of these operators. Subsequently this theorem was generalized to other domains and appeared in different forms, including domains in $\mathbb{C}^n$ on which the $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann operator $N$ is compact. In this work we remove the assumption on $N$, and we study weighted Bergman spaces on smooth bounded pseudoconvex domains. We prove a local version of the Axler-Zheng theorem characterizing compactness of Toeplitz op…
We consider operators T : M_0 -> Z and T : M -> Z, where Z is a Banach space and (M_0, M) is a pair of Banach spaces belonging to a general construction in which M is defined by a "big-O" condition and M_0 is given by the corresponding "little-o" condition. Prototype examples of such spaces M are given by $\ell^\infty$, weighted spaces of functions or their derivatives, bounded mean oscillation, Lipschitz-Hölder spaces, and many others. The main result characterizes the weakly compact operators T in terms of a certain norm naturally attached to M, weaker than the M-norm, and shows that weakly …
We obtain some estimates for norm and essential norm of the difference of two composition operators between weighted Bergman spaces $A^p_α$ and $A^q_β$ on the unit ball. In particular, we completely characterize the boundedness and compactness of $C_φ-C_ψ: A^p_α\to A^q_β$ for full range $0<p,q<\infty$, $-1<α,β<\infty$.
For a very general class of weighted Fock spaces on $\mathbb{C}^n$, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a Toeplitz operator with a (not necessarily positive) measure symbol to be compact. Furthermore, we show that all compact operators are in the norm closure of the algebra generated by Toeplitz operators with $C_c ^\infty(\mathbb{C}^n)$ symbols, and in the Hilbert space setting show that all compact operators are in the norm closure of the set of such Toeplitz operators.
Smith et al. recently gave the sufficient and necessary conditions for the boundedness of Volterra type operators on Banach spaces of bounded analytic functions when the symbol functions are univalent. In this paper, we give the complete characterizations of the conditions for the boundedness and compactness of Volterra type operators $T_g$ and their companion operators $S_g$ between weighted Banach spaces of analytic functions, which essentially generalize their works.
In this paper, we present the current results in the study of weighted composition operators on the Bloch space of bounded homogeneous domains in $\mathbb{C}^n$ with particular emphasis on the issues of boundedness and compactness. We also discuss the bounded and the compact weighted composition operators from the Bloch space to the Hardy space $H^\infty$.
The Carleson measures for weighted Dirichlet spaces had been characterized by Girela and Peláez, who also characterized the boundedness of Volterra type operators between weighted Dirichlet spaces. However, their characterizations for the boundedness are not complete. In this paper, we completely characterize the boundedness and compactness of Volterra type operators from the weighted Dirichlet spaces $D_α^p$ to $D_β^q$ ($-1<α,β$ and $0<p<q<\infty$), which essentially complete their works. Furthermore, we investigate the order boundedness of Volterra type operators between weighted Dirichlet s…
We prove that the weighted composition operator $W_{ϕ,φ}$ fixes an isomorphic copy of $\ell^p$ if the operator $W_{ϕ,φ}$ is not compact on the derivative Hardy space $S^p$. In particular, this implies that the strict singularity of the operator $W_{ϕ,φ}$ coincides with the compactness of it on $S^p$. Moreover, when $p\neq2$, we characterize the conditions for those weighted composition operators $W_{ϕ,φ}$ on $S^p$ which fix an isomorphic copy of $\ell^2$ .
In this paper, we introduce a general class of weighted spaces of holomorphic Dirichlet series (with real frequencies) analytic in some half-plane and study composition operators on these spaces. In the particular case when the symbol inducing the composition operator is an affine function, we give criteria for boundedness and compactness. We also study the cyclicity property and as a byproduct give a sufficient condition so that the direct sum of the identity plus a weighted forward shift operator on the Hardy space H^2 is cyclic.
Let $Ω$ be a bounded convex domain in $\mathbb{C}^{n}$, $n\geq 2$, $1\leq q\leq (n-1)$, and $ϕ\in C(\barΩ)$. If the Hankel operator $H^{q-1}_ϕ$ on $(0,q-1)$--forms with symbol $ϕ$ is compact, then $ϕ$ is holomorphic along $q$--dimensional analytic (actually, affine) varieties in the boundary. We also prove a partial converse: if the boundary contains only `finitely many' varieties, $1\leq q\leq n$, and $ϕ\in C(\barΩ)$ is analytic along the ones of dimension $q$ (or higher), then $H^{q-1}_ϕ$ is compact.
Let $Ω$ be a bounded convex Reinhardt domain in $\mathbb{C}^2$ and $ϕ\in C(\barΩ)$. We show that the Hankel operator $H_ϕ$ is compact if and only if $ϕ$ is holomorphic along every non-trivial analytic disc in the boundary of $Ω$.
For $1 < p < \infty$ let $\mathcal{T}_p ^α$ be the norm closure of the algebra generated by Toeplitz operators with bounded symbols acting on the standard weighted Fock space $F_α^p$. In this paper, we will show that an operator $A$ is compact on $F_α^p$ if and only if $A \in \mathcal{T}_p ^α$ and the Berezin transform $B_α(A)$ of $A$ vanishes at infinity.