Fredholm composition operators
Fredholm composition operators
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10.1090/s0002-9939-1980-0565345-0
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1980-02
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Ashok Kumar
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Ashok Kumar
In this paper a necessary and sufficient condition for a composition operator CT on L2[0, 1] to be a Fredholm operator is given. In addition, all Fredholm composition operators on 12(N) are characterized. 1. Preliminaries. Let (X, S, X) be a a-finite measure space and T be a measurable nonsingular (AT-'(E) = 0 whenever X(E) = 0) transformation from X into itself. Then a composition transformation CT on L2(X, S, X) is defined as CTJ = f o T for everyf EL2(X, ,X ). In case CT is a bounded operator with range in L2(X, , A), we call it a composition operator induced by T. The main purpose of this paper is to study Fredhohm composition operators on L2(X, S, X) (briefly written as L2(X)), where X is the unit interval, S is the a-algebra of all Borel subsets of X, and X is the Lebesgue measure on S. A criterion for a composition operator to be Fredholm on 12(N) is also given here. Let B(L2(X)), R(CT)1 and [x,y, z,... ] denote the Banach algebra of all bounded linear operators on L2(X), the orthogonal complement of the range of CT and the closed linear span of the vectors x, y, z, . . . respectively. DEFINITION. An operator A on a Hilbert space H is called a Fredholm operator if the range of A is closed and if the dimensions of the kernel and the cokernel are finite. 2. Fredholm composition opertors. A characterization of Fredholm composition operators on H2(D) is given by J. Cima, J. Thomson and W. Wogen in [2] where they proved that a composition operator CT is Fredholm if and only if T is a conformal automorphism of the disc. The following theorem gives an analogous characterization of Fredholm composition operators on L2(X) = L2[0, 1]. THEOREM 1. Let CT E B(L2(X)). Then CT is a Fredholm operator if and only if it is invertible. PROOF. If CT is invertible, then clearly CT is a Fredholm operator. It is known from [5, p. 82] that CTCT = Mf0, where Mf is the multiplication operator induced by fo = dAT-/dA. Since X is nonatomic [3, pp. 171-174] and Ker CT = Ker CTCT = Ker Mf= L2(Xo), where X0 = {x: f0(x) = 0), it follows that the dimension of the kernel of CT of either zero or infinite. Received by the editors May 3, 1977 and, in revised form, June 18, 1979. AMS (MOS) subject classifications (1970). Primary 47B30; Secondary 47B30.