Fixed Point Theory and Applications
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 28750, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/28750
Research Article

Compact Weighted Composition Operators and Fixed Points in Convex Domains

Dana D. Clahane

Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside 92521, CA, USA

Received 18 April 2007; Accepted 24 June 2007

Academic Editor: Fabio Zanolin

Copyright © 2007 Dana D. Clahane. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Let D be a bounded, convex domain in n, and suppose that φ:DD is holomorphic. Assume that ψ:D is analytic, bounded away from zero toward the boundary of D, and not identically zero on the fixed point set of D. Suppose also that the weighted composition operator Wψ,φ given by Wψ,φ(f)=ψ(fφ) is compact on a holomorphic, functional Hilbert space (containing the polynomial functions densely) on D with reproducing kernel K satisfying K(z,z) as zD. We extend the results of J. Caughran/H. Schwartz for unweighted composition operators on the Hardy space of the unit disk and B. MacCluer on the ball by showing that φ has a unique fixed point in D. We apply this result by making a reasonable conjecture about the spectrum of Wψ,φ based on previous results.