Closed-range conjecture for composition operators on the Dirichlet space

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Let D\mathbb D be the unit disk, let φ\varphi be an analytic self-mapping of D\mathbb D, and let Cφf=fφC_{\varphi}f=f\circ\varphi be bounded on the Dirichlet space D(D)\mathcal D(\mathbb D). Write nφ(w)n_{\varphi}(w) for the multiplicity function of φ\varphi and D(z,r)D(z,r) for the disk of radius rr centered at zz. A measure μ\mu is reverse Carleson when there are δ>0\delta>0 and r>0r>0 such that μ(D(z,r))δA(D(z,r))\mu(D(z,r))\geq\delta A(D(z,r)) for every zDz\in\mathbb D. Closed-range conjecture. The range R(Cφ)R(C_{\varphi}) is closed if and only if, for every α(0,1)\alpha\in(0,1), there are δ>0\delta>0 and r>0r>0 such that

φ(D)D(z,r)nφα(w)dA(w)δA(D(z,r))\int_{\varphi(\mathbb D)\cap D(z,r)}n_{\varphi}^{\alpha}(w)\,dA(w)\geq\delta A(D(z,r))

for all zDz\in\mathbb D; equivalently, nφα(w)dA(w)n_{\varphi}^{\alpha}(w)dA(w) is a reverse Carleson measure. This conjecture proposes a necessary and sufficient geometric condition for the closed range of a bounded composition operator on the Dirichlet space.

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Guangfu Cao and Li He, “Composition operators with closed range on the Dirichlet space”, arXiv:2304.01497 (2023).

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