Groups of Isometries Associated with Automorphisms of the Half - Plane

Author

Job Otieno Bonyo

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Miller, T. Len

Committee Member

Miller, Vivien G.

Committee Member

Neumann, Michael M.

Committee Member

Smith, Robert C.

Committee Member

Razzaghi, Mohsen

Date of Degree

12-11-2015

Document Type

Dissertation - Open Access

Major

Mathematical Sciences

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Abstract

The study of integral operators on spaces of analytic functions has been considered for the past few decades. However, most of the studies in this line are based on spaces of analytic functions of the unit disc. For the analytic spaces of the upper half-plane, the literature is still scanty. Most notable is the recent work of Siskakis and Arvanitidis concerning the classical Ces`aro operator on Hardy spaces of the upper half-plane. In this dissertation, we characterize all continuous one-parameter groups of automorphisms of the upper halfplane according to the nature and location of their fixed points into three distinct classes, namely, the scaling, the translation, and the rotation groups. We then introduce the associated groups of weighted composition operators on both Hardy and weighted Bergman spaces of the half-plane. Interestingly, it turns out that these groups of composition operators form three strongly continuous groups of isometries. A detailed analysis of each of these groups of isometries is carried out. Specifically, we determine the spectral properties of the generators of every group, and using both spectral and semigroup theory of Banach spaces, we obtain concrete representations of the resolvents as integral operators on both Hardy and Bergman spaces of the half-plane. For the scaling group, the resulting resolvent operators are exactly the Ces`aro-like operators. The spectral properties of the obtained integral operators is also determined. Finally, we detail the theory of both Szeg¨o and Bergman projections of the half-plane, and use it to determine the duality properties of these spaces. Consequently, we obtain the adjoints of the resolvent operators on the reflexive Hardy and Bergman spaces of the half-plane.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/20296

Recommended Citation

Bonyo, Job Otieno, "Groups of Isometries Associated with Automorphisms of the Half - Plane" (2015). Theses and Dissertations. 2443.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/2443