COMPACTNESS OF THE DIFFERENCES OF WEIGHTED COMPOSITION OPERATORS FROM WEIGHTED BERGMAN SPACES TO WEIGHTED-TYPE SPACES ON THE UNIT BALL

Abstract

Let $\varphi_{1}$ and $\varphi_{2}$ be holomorphic self-maps of the open unit ball $\mathbb B$ in $\mathbb C^N$, $u_{1}$ and $u_{2}$ be holomorphic functions on $\mathbb B$ and let weighted composition operators $W_{\varphi_{1},u_{1}}$; $W_{\varphi_{2},u_{2}}: A^{p}_{\alpha} \to H^{\infty}_{v}$ be bounded. This paper characterizes the compactness of the difference of these operators from the weighted Bergman space $A^p_\alpha$, $0-1$, to the weighted-type space $H^\infty_v$ of holomorphic functions on $\mathbb B$ in terms of inducing symbols $\varphi_{1}$, $\varphi_{2}$, $u_{1}$ and $u_{2}$. For the case $p \gt 1$ we find an asymptotically equivalent expression to the essential norm of the operator.