On approximation numbers of composition operators

Daniel Li, Hervé Queffélec, Luis Rodriguez-Piazza

Published 2011-04-22Version 1

We show that the approximation numbers of a compact composition operator on the weighted Bergman spaces $\mathfrak{B}_\alpha$ of the unit disk can tend to 0 arbitrarily slowly, but that they never tend quickly to 0: they grow at least exponentially, and this speed of convergence is only obtained for symbols which do not approach the unit circle. We also give an upper bounds and explicit an example.