Berezin regularity of domains in C^n and the essential norms of Toeplitz operators

Abstract

For the open unit disc $\mathbb{D}$ in the complex plane, it is well known that if $\varphi \in C(\overline{\mathbb{D}})$ then its Berezin transform $\tilde{\varphi }$ also belongs to $C(\overline{\mathbb{D}})$. We say that $\mathbb{D}$ is BC-regular. In this paper we study BC-regularity of some pseudoconvex domains in ${\mathbb{C}}^n$ and show that the boundary geometry plays an important role. We also establish a relationship between the essential norm of an operator in a natural Toeplitz subalgebra and its Berezin transform.

Fixed few typos. Minor changes. To appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc