A note on composition operators in a half-plane

Hari Bercovici, Dan Timotin

Published 2012-05-07Version 1

Conditions for a composition operator on the Hardy space of the disk to have closed range or be similar to an isometry are well known. We provide such conditions for composition operators on the Hardy space of the upper half-plane. We also show that the operator of composition with an analytic self-map \Phi\ of the upper half-plane can be similar to an isometry even when \Phi\ is far from being an inner function.