Compact differences of composition operators on weighted Dirichlet spaces

Abstract

Here we consider when the difference of two composition operators is compact on the weighted Dirichlet spaces ${\mathcal{D}}_{\alpha }$. Specifically we study differences of composition operators on the Dirichlet space $\mathcal{D}$ and $S^2$, the space of analytic functions whose first derivative is in $H^2$, and then use Calderón's complex interpolation to extend the results to the general weighted Dirichlet spaces. As a corollary we consider composition operators induced by linear fractional self-maps of the disk.