In this paper we study a class ${\mathcal{Z}}_{H}$ of harmonic mappings on the open unit disk $\mathbb{D}$ in the complex plane that is an extension of the classical (analytic) Zygmund space. We extend to the elements of this class a characterisation that is valid in the analytic case. We also provide a similar result for a closed separable subspace of ${\mathcal{Z}}_{H}$ which we call the little harmonic Zygmund space.

We study the asymptotic behaviour of the powers of a composition operator on various Banach spaces of holomorphic functions on the disc, namely, standard weighted Bergman spaces (finite and infinite order), Bloch space, little Bloch space, Bloch-type space and Dirichlet space. Moreover, we give a complete characterization of those composition operators that are similar to an isometry on these various Banach spaces. We conclude by studying the asymptotic behaviour of semigroups of composition operators on these various Banach spaces.

In this article, we provide a complete description of the spectra of linear fractional composition operators acting on the growth space and Bloch space over the upper half-plane. In addition, we also prove that the norm, essential norm, spectral radius and essential spectral radius of a composition operator acting on the growth space are all equal.

We introduce and study some new function spaces on Riemann surfaces. For certain parameter values these spaces coincide with the classical Dirichlet space, $\text{BMOA}$, or the recently defined ${{\text{Q}}_{p}}$ space. We establish inclusion relations that generalize earlier known inclusions between the above-mentioned spaces.

We characterize the compactness of linear combinations of analytic composition operators on the Bloch space. We also study their boundedness and compactness on the little Bloch space.

For some Banach spaces of analytic functions in the unit disk (weighted Bergman spaces, Bloch space, Dirichlet-type spaces), the isometric pointwise multipliers are found to be unimodular constants. As a consequence, it is shown that none of those spaces have isometric zero-divisors. Isometric coefficient multipliers are also investigated.

We express the operator norm of a weighted composition operator which acts from the Bloch space ℬ to H∞ as the supremum of a quantity involving the weight function, the inducing self-map, and the hyperbolic distance. We also express the essential norm of a weighted composition operator from ℬ to H∞ as the asymptotic upper bound of the same quantity. Moreover we study the estimate of the essential norm of a weighted composition operator from H∞ to itself.

Let φ and ψ be holomorphic self-maps of the unit polydisc Un in the n-dimensional complex space, and denote by Cφ and Cψ the induced composition operators. This paper gives some simple estimates of the essential norm for the difference of composition operators Cφ−Cψ from Bloch space to bounded holomorphic function space in the unit polydisc. The compactness of the difference is also characterized.

In this paper, we establish bounds on the norm of multiplication operators on the Bloch space of the unit disk via weighted composition operators. In doing so, we characterize the isometric multiplication operators to be precisely those induced by constant functions of modulus 1. We then describe the spectrum of the multiplication operators in terms of the range of the symbol. Lastly, we identify the isometries and spectra of a particular class of weighted composition operators on the Bloch space.

The characterization by weighted Lipschitz continuity is given for the Bloch space on the unit ball of $\mathbb{R}^n$. Similar results are obtained for little Bloch and Besov spaces.

The ${{Q}_{p}}$ spaces coincide with the Bloch space for $p\,>\,1$ and are subspaces of $\text{BMOA}$ for $0\,<\,p\,\le \,1$. We obtain lower and upper estimates for the essential norm of a composition operator from the Bloch space into ${{Q}_{p}}$, in particular from the Bloch space into $\text{BMOA}$.

A holomorphic map ψ of the unit disk ito itself induces an operator Cψ on holomorphic functions by composition. We characterize bounded and compact composition operators Cψ on Qp spaces, which coincide with the BMOA for p = 1 and Bloch spaces for p > 1. We also give boundedness and compactness characterizations of Cψ from analytic function space X to Qp spaces, X = Dirichlet space D, Bloch space B or B0 = {f: f′ ∈ H∞}.

We show that the multiplier space , where X is BMOA, VMOA, B, B0 or disk algebra A. We give the multipliers from , we also give the multipliers from , C0, BMOA, and Hp.

Let D be the unit disc in the complex plane. It is shown that

(i) for 0 < p < 2, there exists an analytic function f ∊ BMOA for which

and

(ii) for 2 < p < ∞, there exists an analytic function f ∉ BMOA for which

This settles the question of Stroethoff [5] on BMOA.