Composition operators on Hardy spaces of a half plane

Sam Elliott, Michael T. Jury

Published 2009-07-02Version 1

We prove that a composition operator is bounded on the Hardy space $H^2$ of the right half-plane if and only if the inducing map fixes the point at infinity non-tangentially, and has a finite angular derivative $\lambda$ there. In this case the norm, essential norm, and spectral radius of the operator are all equal to $\sqrt{\lambda}$.