Abstract
In this paper, based on the characterization of Carleson measure, we study bounded difference of composition operators from Bergman spaces with Békollé weight to Lebesgue spaces over the half-plane. We also obtain a characterization for the Carleson measure by products of functions.
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1 Introduction
Let \(\Pi ^{+}\) be the upper half of the complex plane, i.e., \(\Pi ^{+}=\{z\in {\mathbb {C}}:\textrm{Im}z>0\},\) and \({\textrm{d}}A\) be the Lebesgue area measure on \(\Pi ^{+}.\) Given a positive Lebesgue function \(\omega \) on the \(\Pi ^{+},\) for \(0<p<\infty ,\) the weighted Bergman space \(A^{p}(\omega )\) is the space of holomorphic functions f over \(\Pi ^{+}\) with
If \(\omega (z)= c_{\alpha } (\textrm{Im}z)^{\alpha }\) for \(\alpha >-1,\) then \(A^{p}(\omega )\) is the standard weighted Bergman space \(A_{\alpha }^p(\Pi ^+),\) where \(c_{\alpha }=\frac{2^\alpha (\alpha +1)}{\pi }.\) Let \(S(\Pi ^{+})\) be the set of all holomorphic self-maps on \(\Pi ^{+}.\) The composition operator \(C_{\varphi }\) on \(A^p(\omega )\) induced by \(\varphi \in S(\Pi ^{+})\) is defined by
Composition operators on various analytic function spaces have been extensively studied (see the monographs [4, 17, 21]). One of the most important topics in the study of composition operators is to characterize properties of the difference of composition operators, especially the compactness (see [6, 8, 11, 12, 16, 19] and the references therein). Different from the unit disk case, there exist unbounded composition operators and there are no compact composition operators on \(A_{\alpha }^p(\Pi ^+)\) [10, 18]. In [7], Choe et al. characterized bounded and compact difference of composition operators on \(A_{\alpha }^p(\Pi ^+).\) In [14], Pang and Wang extended the results in [7] to the composition operators from \(A_{\alpha }^p(\Pi ^+)\) to Lebesgue spaces \(L^q(\mu )\) for all \(0<p,q<\infty .\) Here, \(\mu \) is a positive Borel measure on \(\Pi ^+\) and \(L^q(\mu )\) is the space of all measurable functions f defined on \(\Pi ^{+}\) with “norm”
In this paper, we consider the bounded difference of composition operators from \(A^p(\omega )\) into \(L^q(\mu )\) for \(\frac{\omega (z)}{(\textrm{Im}z)^\alpha }\in B_{p_0}(\alpha )\) with \(p_0>1\) and \(\alpha >-1.\)
Let \(p_0>1\) and \(\alpha >-1.\) Recall that the class \(B_{p_0}(\alpha )\) consists of all positive locally integrable functions \(\omega \) on \(\Pi ^+\) satisfying
where I is an interval in \({\mathbb {R}},\) \(Q_{I}=I\times [0,|I|]\) (|I| denotes the length of I) is the Carleson square associated to I and \(p_0^\prime \) is the conjugate index of \(p_0.\) Since \(\frac{|\textrm{Im}z|}{|I|}\le 1\) for \(z\in Q_{I},\) we see that \(B_{p_0}(\alpha )\subset B_{p_0}(\beta )\) if \(-1<\alpha <\beta .\)
In order to state our main results, we introduce more terminology and notation.
Let \(\rho \) be the pseudo-hyperbolic distance on \(\Pi ^+,\) that is
For \(z\in \Pi ^{+},0<\delta <1,\) \(E_{\delta }(z)\) denotes the pseudo-hyperbolic disk centered at z with radius \(\delta .\) That is, \(E_{\delta }(z)=\{\xi \in \Pi ^{+},\rho (z,\xi )<\delta \}.\) A sequence \(\{z_{n}\}\subset \Pi ^{+}\) is called \(\delta \)-separated if \(\{E_{\delta }(z_{n})\}\) are pairwise disjoint, and is called a \(\delta \)-lattice if it is \(\frac{\delta }{2}\)-separated and \(\Pi ^ {+}=\bigcup _{n=1}^{\infty } E_{\delta }(z_{n}).\) A \(\delta \)-lattice on the upper half plane exists and can be explicitly constructed by using almost the same argument as that on the unit disk [21, Lemma 4.8].
The Borel measure \(\mu \) is called an \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure if there exists a constant \(C>0\) such that for any \(f\in A^{p}(\omega ),\)
Denote
Our first result gives the characterization of \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure.
Theorem 1.1
Let \(0<p,q<\infty ,\) \(\alpha >-1,\) \(p_0>\max \{1, p\},\) \(\frac{\omega (z)}{(\textrm{Im}z)^\alpha }\in B_{p_0}(\alpha )\) and \(\mu \) be a positive Borel measure on \(\Pi ^{+}.\)
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If \(0<p\le q<\infty ,\) then \(\mu \) is an \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure if and only if
$$\begin{aligned} \sup _{z\in \Pi ^{+}} H_{\omega ,\mu ,\delta }(z)<\infty . \end{aligned}$$ -
(2)
If \(0<q<p<\infty ,\) then the following statements are equivalent.
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(a)
\(\mu \) is an \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure;
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\(\{H_{\omega ,\mu ,2\delta }(z_{n})\}\in l^{\frac{p}{p-q}}\) for any \(\delta \)-lattice \(\{z_{n}\}\subset \Pi ^{+}\) with \(0<\delta <\frac{1}{3};\)
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\(\{H_{\omega ,\mu ,2\delta }(z_{n})\}\in l^{\frac{p}{p-q}}\) for some \(\delta \)-lattice \(\{z_{n}\}\subset \Pi ^{+}\) with \(0<\delta <\frac{1}{3};\)
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\(G_{\omega ,\mu ,\delta }\in L^{\frac{p}{p-q}}(\omega {\textrm{d}}A)\) for some \(0<\delta <1.\)
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(a)
For \(\varphi ,\psi \in S(\Pi ^{+})\) and \(0<\delta <1,\) let
The joint pullback measure \(\mu _{\varphi ,\psi ,q}\) is defined for any Borel set \(E\subset \Pi ^+\) as
Based on Theorem 1.1, we characterize the bounded difference of composition operators from \(A^{p}(\omega )\) to \(L^{q}(\mu ).\)
Theorem 1.2
Let \(0<p,q<\infty ,\) \(\alpha >-1,\) \(p_0>\max \{1, p\},\) \(\frac{\omega (z)}{(\textrm{Im}z)^\alpha }\in B_{p_0}(\alpha )\) and \(\mu \) be a positive Borel measure on \(\Pi ^{+}.\) Suppose that \(\varphi , \psi \in S(\Pi ^{+}).\) Then \(C_ {\varphi }-C_{\psi }\) is bounded from \(A^{p}(\omega )\) to \(L^{q}(\mu )\) if and only if \(\mu _{\varphi ,\psi ,q}\) is an \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure.
Let \(\lambda =\frac{q}{p},\) then \(\frac{p}{p-q}=\frac{1}{1-\lambda }.\) By Theorem 1.1, we see that the \((\omega , p,q)\)-Carleson measure depends only on the ratio \(\lambda =\frac{q}{p}.\) So we introduce the following definition. A Borel measure \(\mu \) is called an \((\omega , \lambda )\)-Carleson measure if there exists a constant \(C>0\) such that for all \(0<p, q<\infty \) with \(\lambda =\frac{q}{p}\) and any \(f\in A^{p}(\omega ),\)
Finally, we give a characterization for \((\omega , \lambda )\)-Carleson measure by using products of functions in \(A^p(\omega ).\)
Theorem 1.3
Let \(\alpha >-1,\) \(p_0>1,\) \(\frac{\omega (z)}{(\textrm{Im}z)^\alpha }\in B_{p_0}(\alpha )\) and \(\mu \) be a positive Borel measure on \(\Pi ^{+}.\) For any integer \(k\ge 1\) and \(i=1, 2, \ldots , k,\) let
Then \(\mu \) is an \((\omega , \lambda )\)-Carleson measure if and only if there exists a positive constant C such that for any \( f_{i}\in A^{p_{i}}(\omega ),\) \(i=1, 2,\ldots , k,\)
The paper is organized as follows. In Sect. 2, we discuss the class \(B_{p_0}(\alpha )\) and prove a collection of preliminary results which will be used. In Sects. 3–5, we give the proofs of Theorem 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 respectively.
Throughout this paper, the notation \(A\lesssim B\) means that there is a positive constant C which is independent of \(z\in \Pi ^+\) and \(f\in A^p(\omega )\) such that \(A\le C B,\) and the notation \(A\thickapprox B\) means that both \(A\lesssim B\) and \(B\lesssim A\) hold.
2 Preliminaries
In this section, we present some results about the class \(B_{p_0}(\alpha )\) and the weighted Bergman spaces \(A^{p}(\omega ).\) Some technical lemmas used throughout the paper are proved.
Lemma 2.1
[7] Let \(z\in \Pi ^{+},0<\delta <1.\) Then for all \(\xi \in E_\delta (z)\) and \(a\in \Pi ^+,\)
For \(p_{0}>1, 0<\delta <1,\) we say that a weight \(\omega \) belongs to the \(C_{p_{0}}(\delta )\) class if
Let E be a measurable subset in \(\Pi ^+,\) denote \(|E|=\int _{E} {\textrm{d}}A.\) Then for any Carleson square \(Q_{I},\)
Given a pseudo-hyperbolic disk \(E_{\delta }(z).\) \(E_{\delta }(z)\) is actually a Euclidean disk centered at \(x+\textrm{i}\frac{1+\delta ^{2}}{1-\delta ^{2}}y\) with radius \(\frac{2\delta }{1-\delta ^{2}}y,\) where \(z=x+\textrm{i}y, x={\textrm{Re}} z, y=\textrm{Im}z\) [7]. Let \(z'=x+\textrm{i}\frac{1+\delta }{1-\delta }y\) and \(Q(z')=\{\xi \in \Pi ^{+}:|{\textrm{Re}} \xi -x|<\frac{1}{2}\textrm{Im}z',0<\textrm{Im}\xi <\textrm{Im}z'\}.\) Then, \(Q(z')\) is a Carleson square with side length \(\frac{1+\delta }{1-\delta }y.\) Obviously, \(E_{\delta }(z)\subset Q(z')\) and
That is, \(|E_{\delta }(z)|\approx |Q(z')|.\) The following lemma shows that \(B_{p_{0}}(\alpha )\subset C_{p_{0}}(\delta )\) for any \(0<\delta <1.\)
Lemma 2.2
Let \(\alpha >-1, 0<\delta <1.\) Then \(B_{p_{0}}(\alpha )\subset C_{p_{0}}(\delta ).\) Furthermore, if \(\frac{\omega (z)}{(\textrm{Im}z)^{\alpha }}\in B_{p_{0}}(\alpha ),\) then \(\omega \in C_{p_{0}}(\delta ).\)
Proof
Let \(\omega \in B_{p_{0}}(\alpha ).\) Then, by Lemma 2.1,
The last “\(\approx \)” follows from the fact that \(\int _{Q(z')} {\textrm{d}}A_{\alpha }\approx |Q(z')|^{1+\frac{\alpha }{2}}\approx (\textrm{Im}z)^{\alpha +2}.\) Thus, \(\omega \in C_{p_{0}}(\delta )\) and \(B_{p_{0}}(\alpha )\subset C_{p_{0}}(\delta ).\)
Suppose \(\frac{\omega (z)}{(\textrm{Im}z)^{\alpha }}\in B_{p_{0}}(\alpha ).\) Then, we have \(\frac{\omega (z)}{(\textrm{Im}z)^{\alpha }}\in C_{p_{0}}(\delta ).\) By Lemma 2.1,
Thus, \(\omega \in C_{p_{0}}(\delta ).\) \(\square \)
Lemma 2.3
Let \(\alpha >-1,\) \(p_{0}>1\) and \(\frac{\omega (z)}{(\textrm{Im}z)^{\alpha }}\in B_{p_{0}}(\alpha ).\) If \(\xi \in E_{\delta }(z),\) then
Proof
Take \(0<\delta _1,\delta _2<1.\) We first show that \(\omega (E_{\delta _1}(z))\approx \omega (E_{\delta _2}(z)).\)
Without loss of generality, we assume \(\delta _1\le \delta _2.\) Then, \(E_{\delta _{1}}(z)\subset E_{\delta _{2}}(z).\) Hence,
On the other hand, by Lemma 2.2, \(\omega \in C_{p_0}(\delta _2).\) So
The first “\(\lesssim \)” and “\(\le \)” in the formula above follow from the definition of the class \(C_{p_0}(\delta )\) and Hölder’s inequality respectively. We obtain that \(\omega (E_ {\delta _{1}}(z))\approx \omega (E_{\delta _{2}}(z)).\)
Since \(\xi \in E_{\delta }(z),\) \(E_{\frac{1-\delta }{2}}(\xi )\subset E_{\frac{1-\delta }{2}+\delta }(z),\ \ E_{\frac{1-\delta }{2}}(z)\subset E_{\frac{1-\delta }{2}+\delta }(\xi ).\) Hence,
Therefore, we have \(\omega (E_{\delta }(\xi ))\approx \omega (E_{\delta }(z)).\) \(\square \)
Applying Hölder’s inequality, it is easy to verify that \(B_{p_0}(\alpha )\subset B_{p_1}(\alpha ),\) \(C_{p_0}(\delta )\subset C_{p_1}(\delta )\) if \(p_0<p_1.\)
In the following, we discuss the properties of functions in \(A^p(\omega )\) with \(\frac{\omega (z)}{(\textrm{Im}z)^{\alpha }}\in B_{p_{0}}(\alpha ).\) These properties are the extension of the corresponding properties of functions in standard weighted Bergman spaces \(A_{\alpha }^p(\Pi ^+).\)
Lemma 2.4
Suppose that \(0<p<\infty , \alpha>-1, p_0>1\) and \(\frac{\omega (z)}{(\textrm{Im}z)^{\alpha }}\in B_{p_{0}}(\alpha ).\) Let f be any analytic function on \(\Pi ^{+}\) and \(z\in \Pi ^+.\)
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\( \left| f(z)\right| ^{p}\lesssim \frac{1}{\omega (E_{\delta }(z))}\int _{E_{\delta }(z)}|f|^{p}\omega {\textrm{d}}A,\ z\in \Pi ^+.\) In particular,
$$\begin{aligned} \left| f(z)\right| ^{p}\lesssim \frac{1}{\omega (E_{\delta }(z))}\int _{\Pi ^+}|f|^{p}\omega {\textrm{d}}A; \end{aligned}$$ -
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Let \(0<\delta ^\prime <\delta .\) For \(\xi \in E_{\delta ^\prime }(z),\)
$$\begin{aligned} |f(z)-f(\xi )|^{p}\lesssim \frac{\rho (z,\xi )^{p}}{\omega (E_{\delta }(z))}\int _{E_{\delta }(z)}|f|^{p}\omega {\textrm{d}}A. \end{aligned}$$
Proof
(1) By Hölder’s inequality and submean value type inequality with respect to the Lebesgue measure \({\textrm{d}}A\) [9, Lemma 3.6], we have
Since \(\frac{\omega (z)}{(\textrm{Im}z)^{\alpha }}\in B_{p_{0}}(\alpha ),\) it follows from Lemma 2.2 that \(\omega \in C_{p_0}(\delta )\) and hence
Therefore,
and
(2) By [7, Lemma 3.2], Hölder’s inequality and (2.1), we obtain
Thus,
For \(\alpha >-1,\) let \(K_{\alpha }\) be the reproducing kernel functions of \(A_{\alpha }^{2}(\Pi ^+),\) i.e.,
The integral operators \(P_{\alpha }\) and \(P_{\alpha }^+\) are defined as
The following result shows that the class \(B_{p_0}(\alpha )\) plays a special role in the theory of function spaces.
Theorem 2.5
[13, Theorem 1.3] Let \(\alpha>-1, p_{0}>1\) and \(\omega \) be a positive locally integrable function. The following statements are equivalent :
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\(P_{\alpha }\) is bounded from \(L^{p_{0}}(\omega {\textrm{d}}A)\) to \(L^{p_{0}}(\omega {\textrm{d}}A);\)
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(2)
\(P_{\alpha }^{+}\) is bounded from \(L^{p_{0}}(\omega {\textrm{d}}A)\) to \(L^{p_{0}}(\omega {\textrm{d}}A);\)
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\(\frac{\omega (z)}{(\textrm{Im}z)^{\alpha }}\in B_{p_{0}}(\alpha ).\)
Note that the class \(B_{p_{0}}(\alpha )\) was firstly studied by Békollé and Bonami in the setting of the unit disk (or the unit ball) [1, 2]. We will see that the class \(B_{p_{0}}(\alpha )\) in the upper half plane shares similar properties as that in the unit disk [3, 5, 20].
Lemma 2.6
Let \(\alpha>-1, p_0>1, 0<p<\infty \) and \(\frac{\omega (z)}{(\textrm{Im}z)^\alpha }\in B_{p_0}(\alpha ).\) Then,
Proof
By the submean value type inequality [9], we have
It follows from Theorem 2.5 that
On the other hand, by Lemma 2.1,
Therefore, we obtain
The following lemma is a modification of [9, Lemma 4.2].
Lemma 2.7
Let \(0<\delta <\frac{1}{3}\) and \(s=1,2.\) If \(\{z_{n}\}\subset \Pi ^{+}\) is a \(\delta \)-lattice, then there exists a positive integer \(N=N(s, \delta )\) such that no more than N of the balls \(E_{s\delta }(z_{n})\) contain a common point.
Let \(r_{n}:[0,1]\rightarrow [-1,1]\) be the Rademacher functions defined as
Khinchine’s inequality says that for \(0<p<\infty ,\) there are constants \(0<A_{p}\leqslant B_{p}<\infty \) such that
for all natural numbers m and all complex numbers \(c_{1}, c_{2},\ldots , c_{m}\) [14].
Lemma 2.8
Let \(0<p<\infty , \alpha>-1, p_{0}>\max \{1, p\}\) and \(\frac{\omega (z)}{(\textrm{Im}z)^\alpha }\in B_{p_0}(\alpha ).\) Suppose that \(0<\delta <\frac{1}{3}.\) Then, for any \(\delta \)-lattice \(\{z_{n}\}\subset \Pi ^{+}\) and \(\{c_{n}\}\in l^{p},\)
where \(\{r_{n}(t)\}\) are the Rademacher functions.
Proof
Since \(p_{0}>p,\)
By (2.2), we have
Therefore,
By Lemma 2.7,
It follows from Lemma 2.6 that
Therefore, \(f_t\in A^{p}(\omega )\) and \(\Vert f_t\Vert _{A^{p}(\omega )}\lesssim \Vert \{c_{n}\}\Vert _{l^{p}}.\) \(\square \)
The following lemma provides an estimate of the difference of our test functions in terms of the pseudo-hyperbolic distance.
Lemma 2.9
[14, Lemma 2.12] Let \(0<p<\infty , p_{0}>1\) and \(0<\delta <1,\) then
for all \(z, \eta \in \Pi ^{+}\) and \(\xi \in E_{\delta }(z).\)
3 Characterization of \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure
In this section, we give the proof of Theorem 1.1. Recall that
Proof of Theorem 1.1
(1) For sufficiency, assume that
For any \(f\in A^{p}(\omega ),\) by Lemma 2.4(1) and Fubini’s theorem,
For \(\xi \in E_{\delta }(z),\) by Lemma 2.3, we have \(\omega (E_{\delta }(\xi ))\approx \omega (E_{\delta }(z)).\) Thus
It follows from Lemma 2.4 that \(|f(z)|^{q-p}\lesssim \frac{1}{\omega (E_{\delta }(z))^{\frac{q-p}{p}}}\Vert f\Vert _{A^{p}(\omega )}^{q-p}.\) Therefore,
Therefore, \(\mu \) is an \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure.
For necessity, assume that \(\mu \) is an \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure.
For any \(z\in \Pi ^{+},\) let \(f_{z}(\xi )=\frac{K_{\alpha }(z,\xi )^{\frac{p_0}{p}}}{\Vert K_{\alpha }(z,\cdot )^{\frac{p_0}{p}}\Vert _{A^{p}(\omega )}}.\) Then, \(\Vert f_z\Vert _{A^{p}(\omega )}=1.\) By Lemma 2.6,
By Lemma 2.1,
Therefore,
Thus, \(\sup _{z\in \Pi ^{+}} H_{\omega ,\mu ,\delta }(z)<\infty .\)
(2) \((\text {a})\Rightarrow (\text {b}).\) Suppose that \(\mu \) is an \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure. Let
be the functions as in Lemma 2.8. Then, \(f_ {t}\in A^{p}(\omega )\) and \(\Vert f_{t}\Vert _{A^{p}(\omega )}\lesssim \Vert \{c_{n}\}\Vert _{l^{p}}.\) Thus,
By Khinchine’s inequality and Fubini’s theorem,
By Lemmas 2.7 and 2.6, we have
Integrate both sides of this formula, by (3.1), we get
Combining with (3.2), we obtain
Since \(\{c_{n}\}\in l^{p}\) if and only if \(\{|c_{n}|^{q}\}\in l^{\frac{p}{q}},\) we deduce that
\((\text {b})\Rightarrow (\text {c}).\) It is trivial.
\((\text {c})\Rightarrow (\text {d}).\) Suppose that there exists a constant \(0<\delta <\frac{1}{3}\) such that \(\{H_{\omega ,\mu ,2\delta }(z_{n})\}\in l^{\frac{p}{p-q}},\) where \( \{z_{n}\}\subset \Pi ^{+}\) is a \(\delta \)-lattice.
For \(z\in E_{\delta }(z_{n}),\) we have \(E_{\delta }(z)\subset E_{2\delta }(z_{n})\) and \(\omega (E_{\delta }(z))\approx \omega (E_{2\delta }(z_{n})).\) Then,
Thus,
Therefore, \(G_{\omega ,\mu ,\delta }\in L^{\frac{p}{p-q}}(\omega {\textrm{d}}A).\)
\((\text {d})\Rightarrow (\text {a}).\) Suppose that there exists \(0<\delta <1\) such that \(G_{\omega ,\mu ,\delta }\in L^{\frac{p}{p-q}}(\omega {\textrm{d}}A).\) For any \( f\in A^{p}(\omega ),\) by Lemma 2.4(1), Fubini’s theorem, Lemma 2.3 and Hölder’s inequality,
which implies that
Thus, \(\mu \) is an \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure. \(\square \)
4 Bounded difference of composition operators
In this section, we give the proof of Theorem 1.2. Recall that for \(\varphi ,\psi \in S(\Pi ^{+})\) and \(0<\delta <1,\)
For any Borel set \(E\subset \Pi ^+,\)
In the following, we write \(\mu _{\varphi ,\psi ,q}\) as \(\mu _q\) for simplicity.
Proof of Theorem 1.2
For sufficiency, assume that \(\mu _q\) is an \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure.
Let \(0<\delta <1.\) For any \( f\in A^{p}(\omega ),\)
For \(z\in \Pi ^ {+}\setminus \Omega _{\frac{\delta }{2}},\) \(\sigma (z)\geqslant \frac{\delta }{2}.\) Thus,
Since \(\mu _q\) is an \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure,
Furthermore, we estimate the first term \(\text {I}(f).\) By Lemma 2.4(2) and Fubini’s Theorem,
The same estimate holds when the roles of \(\varphi \) and \(\psi \) are interchanged. Thus
If \(0<q<p<\infty ,\) then by Hölder’s inequality,
Therefore, by Theorem 1.1 and (4.2), we have
Therefore, \(C_ {\varphi }-C_{\psi }\) is bounded from \(A^{p}(\omega )\) to \(L^{q}(\mu )\) by (4.1).
If \(0<p\leqslant q<\infty ,\) then
By Lemma 2.4(1), we have \(|f(\xi )|^{q-p}\lesssim \frac{1}{\omega (E_{\delta }(\xi ))^{\frac{q-p}{p}}}\Vert f\Vert _{A^{p}(\omega )}^{q-p}.\) Then,
Thus by Theorem 1.1 and (4.2), we have
Therefore, \(C_ {\varphi }-C_{\psi }\) is bounded from \(A^{p}(\omega )\) to \(L^{q}(\mu )\) by (4.1).
Therefore, if \(\mu _q\) is an \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure, then \(C_ {\varphi }-C_{\psi }\) is bounded from \(A^{p}(\omega )\) to \(L^{q}(\mu )\) for \(0<p,q<\infty .\)
For necessity, assume that \(C_ {\varphi }-C_{\psi }\) is bounded from \(A^{p}(\omega )\) to \(L^{q}(\mu ).\)
Assume \(0<q<p<\infty .\) Let
be the functions in Lemma 2.8. Here \(\{z_n\}\subset \Pi ^{+}\) is a \(\delta \)-lattice with \(0<\delta <\frac{1}{3}.\) Then \(f_ {t}\in A^{p}(\omega )\) and \(\Vert f_{t}\Vert _{A^{p}(\omega )}\lesssim \Vert \{c_{n}\}\Vert _{l^{p}}.\)
For \(\varphi (z)\in E_{2\delta }(z_n),\) by Lemma 2.9, we have
Therefore, by Lemma 2.1,
Thus, by Lemma 2.6 and Khinchine’s inequality,
The same estimate holds when we replace \(\varphi \) by \(\psi ,\)
Since
we have
It follows from the arbitrary of \(\{c_{n}\}\in l^{p}\) that
By Theorem 1.1, \(\mu _q\) is an \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure.
If \(0<p\le q<\infty ,\) by Lemmas 2.1 and 2.9, for \(\xi \in \Pi ^+,\) \(0<\delta <1,\) \(z\in \varphi ^{-1}(E_{\delta }(\xi )),\) we have
Thus
The same estimate holds when the roles of \(\varphi \) and \(\psi \) are interchanged. So we have
By Lemma 2.6,
Since \(C_ {\varphi }-C_{\psi }\) is bounded from \(A^{p}(\omega )\) to \(L^{q}(\mu ),\) we obtain
By Theorem 1.1, \(\mu _q\) is an \((\omega ,p,q)\)-Carleson measure. \(\square \)
5 Characterization of \((\omega , \lambda )\)-Carleson measure
In this section, we give the proof of Theorem 1.3. Some ideas are derived from [15].
Lemma 5.1
Let \(\omega \) be a positive Lebesgue measurable function on \(\Pi ^+.\) For any integer \(k\ge 1\) and \(i=1,2,\ldots ,k,\) let \(0<p_{i},q_{i}<\infty ,\) \(f_{i}\in A^{p_{i}/q_{i}}(\omega )\) and \(\lambda =\Sigma _{i=1}^{k}\frac{q_{i}}{p_{i}}.\) Then \(\prod _{i=1}^{k}f_{i}\in A^{\frac{1}{\lambda }}(\omega )\) and
The proof of Lemma 5.1 is similar to the proof of [15, Lemma 3.1], we omit it.
Proof of Theorem 1.3
For necessity, assume that \(\mu \) is an \((\omega , \lambda )\)-Carleson measure. If \(k=1,\) then it is just the definition of Carleson measure.
Assume that \(k\geqslant 2.\) Let \(h_{i}\in A^{p_{i}/q_{i}}(\omega ),\) \( i=1, 2,\ldots , k.\) By Lemma 5.1, \(\prod _{i=1}^{k}h_{i}\in A^{\frac{1}{\lambda }}(\omega )\) and
Since \(\mu \) is an \((\omega , \lambda )\)-Carleson measure,
Let
Then (5.1) is equivalent to
This means that \(\mu _{1}\) is an \((\omega , \frac{q_{1}}{p_{1}})\)-Carleson measure. Thus for any \( f_{1}\in A^{p_{1}}(\omega ),\) we have
that is
Let
Then (5.2) is equivalent to
This means that \(\mu _{2}\) is an \((\omega , \frac{q_{2}}{p_{2}})\)-Carleson measure. Thus for any \( f_{2}\in A^{p_{2}}(\omega ),\) we have
which is the same as
Continuing this process, we will eventually get
For sufficiency. Assume first that \(\lambda \geqslant 1.\) Let
By Lemma 2.6, \(f_{i, \xi }\in A^{p_{i}}(\omega )\) and \(\Vert f_{i,\xi }\Vert _{A^{p_{i}}(\omega )}\lesssim 1,\) \(i=1, 2,\ldots , k.\) Thus,
Since
we have
It follows from Theorem 1.1 and (5.3) that \(\mu \) is an \((\omega , \lambda )\)-Carleson measure.
Next we consider the case \(0<\lambda <1.\)
If \(k=1,\) then (1.1) is just the definition of the Carleson measure. Let \(k\geqslant 2\) and assume that the result holds for \(k-1.\) Let
Considering the measure
Then, the condition (1.1) is equivalent to the condition
By induction, \(\mu _{k}\) is an \((\omega , \lambda _{k-1})\)-Carleson measure. Since \(0<\lambda _{k-1}<\lambda <1,\) by Theorem 1.1, for any \(\delta \)-lattice \(\{z_{n}\}\) with \(0<\delta <\frac{1}{3},\)
Let
By Lemma 2.6,
Therefore,
So we have
and
We obtain
It follows from Theorem 1.1 that \(\mu \) is an \((\omega , \lambda )\)-Carleson measure. \(\square \)
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Pang, C., Wang, Z., Li, Y. et al. Difference of composition operators on the weighted Bergman spaces over the half-plane. Banach J. Math. Anal. 17, 56 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43037-023-00283-0
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