We show that a bounded linear operator S on the weighted Bergman space A¹(ψ) is compact and the predual space A₀(φ) of A¹(ψ) is invariant under S* if and only if $S{k}_z\to 0$ as z → ∂D, where $k_z$ is the normalized reproducing kernel of A¹(ψ). As an application, we give conditions for an operator in the Toeplitz algebra to be compact.

For p ≥ 1, a subset K of a Banach space X is said to be relatively p-compact if $K\subset {\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }\alpha ₙxₙ:\alpha ₙ\in Ball\left(l_{p^{\text{'}}}\right)$, where p’ = p/(p-1) and $xₙ\in l_p^s\left(X\right)$. An operator T ∈ B(X,Y) is said to be p-compact if T(Ball(X)) is relatively p-compact in Y. Similarly, weak p-compactness may be defined by considering $xₙ\in l_p^w\left(X\right)$. It is proved that T is (weakly) p-compact if and only if T* factors through a subspace of $l_p$ in a particular manner. The normed operator ideals $(K_p,{\kappa }_p)$ of p-compact operators and $(W_p,{\omega }_p)$ of weakly p-compact operators, arising from these factorizations,...

Various topics concerning compact elementary operators on Banach algebras are studied: their ranges, their coefficients, and the structure of algebras having nontrivial compact elementary operators. In the first part of the paper we consider separately elementary operators of certain simple types. In the second part we obtain our main results which deal with general elementary operators.

For a polish space M and a Banach space E let B1 (M, E) be the space of first Baire class functions from M to E, endowed with the pointwise weak topology. We study the compact subsets of B1 (M, E) and show that the fundamental results proved by Rosenthal, Bourgain, Fremlin, Talagrand and Godefroy, in case E = R, also hold true in the general case. For instance: a subset of B1 (M, E) is compact iff it is sequentially (resp. countably) compact, the convex hull of a compact bounded subset of B1 (M,...

We characterize compact composition operators acting on weighted Bergman-Orlicz spaces ${}_{\alpha }^{\psi }=f\in H\left(\right):{\int }_{}\psi \left(\right|f\left(z\right)\left|\right)d{A}_{\alpha }\left(z\right)<\infty$, where α > -1 and ψ is a strictly increasing, subadditive convex function defined on [0,∞) and satisfying ψ(0) = 0, the growth condition $li{m}_{t\to \infty }\psi \left(t\right)/t=\infty$ and the Δ₂-condition. In fact, we prove that $C_{\phi }$ is compact on ${}_{\alpha }^{\psi }$ if and only if it is compact on the weighted Bergman space ${²}_{\alpha }$.

We consider the compactness of derivations from commutative Banach algebras into their dual modules. We show that if there are no compact derivations from a commutative Banach algebra, A, into its dual module, then there are no compact derivations from A into any symmetric A-bimodule; we also prove analogous results for weakly compact derivations and for bounded derivations of finite rank. We then characterise the compact derivations from the convolution algebra ℓ¹(ℤ₊) to its dual. Finally, we give...

We consider a generalized Hardy operator $Tf\left(x\right)=\varphi \left(x\right){ʃ}_0^x\psi fv$. For T to be bounded from a weighted Banach function space (X,v) into another, (Y,w), it is always necessary that the Muckenhoupt-type condition $ℬ=su{p}_{R>0}\parallel \varphi {\chi }_{(R,\infty )}{\parallel }_Y\parallel \psi {\chi }_{(0,R)}{\parallel }_{X^{\text{'}}}<\infty$ be satisfied. We say that (X,Y) belongs to the category M(T) if this Muckenhoupt condition is also sufficient. We prove a general criterion for compactness of T from X to Y when (X,Y) ∈ M(T) and give an estimate for the distance of T from the finite rank operators. We apply the results to Lorentz spaces and characterize...

A characterization is given of those Banach-space-valued vector measures m with finite variation whose associated integration operator Iₘ: f ↦ ∫fdm is compact as a linear map from L¹(m) into the Banach space. Moreover, in every infinite-dimensional Banach space there exist nontrivial vector measures m (with finite variation) such that Iₘ is compact, and other m (still with finite variation) such that Iₘ is not compact. If m has infinite variation, then Iₘ is never compact.

The aim of this paper is to provide upper bounds for the entropy numbers of summation operators on trees in a critical case. In a recent paper [Studia Math. 202 (2011)] we elaborated a framework of weighted summation operators on general trees where we related the entropy of the operator to those of the underlying tree equipped with an appropriate metric. However, the results were left incomplete in a critical case of the entropy behavior, because this case requires much more involved techniques....

We investigate compactness properties of weighted summation operators $V_{\alpha ,\sigma }$ as mappings from ℓ₁(T) into ${\ell }_q\left(T\right)$ for some q ∈ (1,∞). Those operators are defined by $\left(V_{\alpha ,\sigma }x\right)\left(t\right):=\alpha \left(t\right){\sum }_{s⪰t}\sigma \left(s\right)x\left(s\right)$, t ∈ T, where T is a tree with partial order ⪯. Here α and σ are given weights on T. We introduce a metric d on T such that compactness properties of (T,d) imply two-sided estimates for $eₙ\left(V_{\alpha ,\sigma }\right)$, the (dyadic) entropy numbers of $V_{\alpha ,\sigma }$. The results are applied to concrete trees, e.g. moderately increasing, biased or binary trees and to weights with α(t)σ(t)...

We prove an abstract comparison principle which translates gaussian cotype into Rademacher cotype conditions and vice versa. More precisely, let 2 < q < ∞ and T: C(K) → F a continuous linear operator. (1) T is of gaussian cotype q if and only if ${\left({\sum }_k{(\left(\parallel T{x}_k{\parallel }_F\right)/\left(\surd log(k+1)\right))}^q\right)}^{1/q}\le c\parallel {\sum }_k{\varepsilon }_k{x}_k{\parallel }_{L_2\left(C\left(K\right)\right)}$, for all sequences ${\left(x_k\right)}_{k\in \mathbb{N}}\subset C\left(K\right)$ with ${\left(\parallel T{x}_k\parallel \right)}_{k=1}^n$ decreasing. (2) T is of Rademacher cotype q if and only if $({\sum }_k{\left(\parallel T{x}_k{\parallel }_F\surd \left({\left(log(k+1)\right)}^q\right)\right)}^{1/q}\le c\parallel {\sum }_k{g}_k{x}_k{\parallel }_{L_2\left(C\left(K\right)\right)}$, for all sequences ${\left(x_k\right)}_{k\in \mathbb{N}}\subset C\left(K\right)$ with ${\left(\parallel T{x}_k\parallel \right)}_{k=1}^n$ decreasing. Our method allows a restriction to a fixed number of vectors and complements the corresponding results of Talagrand.