{ "id": "0709.1431", "version": "v1", "published": "2007-09-10T16:13:00.000Z", "updated": "2007-09-10T16:13:00.000Z", "title": "Essential Norms of Weighted Composition Operators between Hardy Spaces in the unit Ball", "authors": [ "Zhong-Shan Fang", "Ze-Hua Zhou" ], "comment": "17 pages", "journal": "Journal of Applied Functional Analysis, 5(3)( 2010), 251-265", "categories": [ "math.FA", "math.CV" ], "abstract": "Let $\\phi(z)=(\\phi_1(z),...,\\phi_n(z))$ be a holomorphic self-map of $B_n$ and $\\psi(z)$ a holomorphic function on $B_n$, and $H(B_n)$ the class of all holomorphic functions on $B_n$, where $B_n$ is the unit ball of $C^n$, the weight composition operator $W_{\\psi,\\phi}$ is defined by $W_{\\psi,\\phi}=\\psi f(\\phi)$ for $f\\in H(B_n)$. In this paper we estimate the essential norm for the weighted composition operator $W_{\\psi,\\phi}$ acting from the Hardy space $H^p$ to $H^q$ ($0