1. Introduction
Let
and
be two points in
. Their standard inner product is defined by
This inner product induces the standard Euclidean norm on
Now let
, and let
be an
r-tuple with
for every
i. For any
, we define the
-norm by
Correspondingly, for
,
, we introduce the associated form
When
, we have
which shows that the form is positive definite and compatible with the
-norm.
We proceed to establish the upper bound estimate:
Let
and
with
for
. The set
is called a polydisk (or polydisc) with center
and radius
. In particular, when
and
for all
j, this is called a unit polydisk, denoted by
, i.e.,
Clearly, when
, this reduces to an open unit disk, which we denote by
. That is,
The ball with center
and radius
is defined by
In particular, when
and
, this reduces to a unit ball, which we denote by
. That is,
When , this is also a unit disk .
Regarding the unit disk
, Fatehi and Hammond [
1] systematically expounded the definitions of various operators and, building upon this foundation, defined the composition–differentiation operators. In this paper, we extend their framework by generalizing these operators. While earlier work mainly considered individual operators, Zhu and Hu [
2] systematically analyzed the properties of finite linear combinations of weighted differential composition operators.
Regarding the unit ball
, Stević and Ueki [
3] mainly discussed two distinct construction forms: those implementing composition followed by differentiation, and those applying differentiation before composition. Meanwhile, they extended the scope of composition–differentiation operators, and characterized the properties of generalized operators. By introducing two new types of operators and leveraging their unique properties, Hagger [
4] extended the classical result for Toeplitz operators.
Regarding the unit polydisk
, Kosiński [
5] derived the boundedness of composition operators by introducing an inequality relating the modulus of a function to the modulus of its gradient. Starting from classical compactness theory and a basic research framework of composition operators, Choe [
6] further explored the compactness conditions and related criteria for linear combinations of such operators.
For special cases of bounded symmetric domains, relevant studies on the unit disk, unit ball, and polydisk can be found in references [
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13].
In the 1930s, Cartan [
14] completed the foundational classification of irreducible bounded symmetric domains, identifying six distinct families. In this paper, we focus on the Cartan domain of the first kind, which is defined as
where
are positive integers,
denotes the transpose of
Z, and
its entrywise complex conjugate. Regarding
, Quiroga-Barranco [
15] investigated Toeplitz operators with radial-like invariant symbols, characterizing both their boundedness and the commutativity of pairs of such operators associated with distinct invariant symbols. By performing coordinate decomposition on matrices, Jiang [
16] derived an inequality between the modulus of a function’s radial derivative and its norm, and thereby characterized the properties of operators on weighted Zygmund spaces. Further studies concerning various Cartan domains can be found in [
17,
18,
19,
20].
Since 1998, Yin [
21] has systematically constructed five classes of domains, namely Cartan–Hartogs domains, Cartan–Egg domains, Hua domains, generalized Hua domains, and the Hua construction. Among these, the first two are special cases of Hua domains, while the last two are generalizations of Hua domains. Collectively, these families are referred to as Hua domains. We now give the precise definition of the generalized Hua domain of the first kind:
Here, are positive integers, , and . When , the generalized Hua domain of the first kind reduces to an ellipsoid. When and , the generalized Hua domain of the first kind becomes the unit ball. For simplicity, we set for all , so that each corresponding vector reduces to a complex scalar in . For brevity, we write to refer to the generalized Hua domain of the first kind throughout the rest of this paper.
By the definition of
, for any
, we have
Since
, by the singular value decomposition, there exist unitary matrices
and
satisfying
with
. Then
where
is the conjugate transpose of the unitary matrix
. So
The condition
implies
for all
, i.e.,
. Therefore,
with equality if and only if all
, i.e.,
. Since
, we obtain
In general, except for the unit ball, Hua domains are non-homogeneous domains, and therefore the study of their problems is of great significance. Wang and Su [
22] constructed a more general framework for Hua domains, yielding results that hold for all five classes of their classes. Zhang [
23] established sufficient conditions ensuring that a Kähler-Ricci soliton must be a Kähler–Einstein metric on the Cartan–Hartogs domain. Wang [
24,
25] extended the Hua inequality, enabling its application to a broader class of domains. By adopting extended Hua inequalities, Huo [
26] explored integral operators defined on Cartan–Hartogs domains and achieved excellent research outcomes. In this paper, we employ this generalized version to characterize the properties of the defined norm. Su and Zhang [
27] firstly utilized the properties of matrix determinants on Cartan–Hartogs domains to establish inequalities between two distinct norms, which has been a great inspiration for our research. We further generalize this method and relevant techniques to derive more general forms of inequalities.
Although extensive research has been conducted on Hua domains, the study of differential operators on them remains largely unexplored. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first to investigate weighted composition–differentiation operators on
. Building on the work of Zhu [
28], we prove Lemma 6, which creatively establishes an inequality between the modulus of the derivative on the unit disk and the norm defined in this paper.
The result of Lemma 6 is then extended from the unit disk to , yielding Lemma 7. These two lemmas are particularly useful in our study, and we hope they will also be useful to other researchers working on differential operators.
2. Preliminaries
Prior to the below analysis, we introduce the precise definitions of the operators under consideration and the associated Bers-type spaces. We also establish several key lemmas that serve as essential technical foundations for the derivation of the main results of this paper.
Let
be a bounded domain in
,
denote the set of all holomorphic functions on
, and
denote the set of all holomorphic self-maps on
. Then consider
and
. The operator
is called a weighted composition–differentiation operator, as introduced in [
1], for any
. Here, for
, it follows that
The Bers-type space on
is formulated as
where
Our definition of the Bers-type space also applies to the unit ball and the unit disk , which can be denoted by and , respectively.
Clearly, is a norm on . We next verify the completeness of .
Let
. Then for any
, by inequalities (1) and (2), we have
. Suppose that
is a Cauchy sequence in
. Then for any
, there exists
such that for all
, we have
For any compact subset
of
, there exists
, fulfilling
From (
3), it follows that
Then
converges uniformly to
f on every compact subset of
. Consequently, we can find
with
Furthermore, letting
in (
3), we obtain, for all
, that
In particular, set
, then for all
,
Hence, , and thus is a Banach space.
In the following, stand for positive constants not depending on the function being discussed, whose values may differ from line to line.
Lemma 1 ([
29])
. Let be an Hermitian matrix with . ThenEquality holds if and only if is a diagonal matrix.
Lemma 2 ([
30])
. Let and all have the same sign, with . Then Lemma 3 ([
26])
. Let , , , and let ℑ be a positive integer. Then Lemma 4 ([
28])
. If and , then for all , where and is the normalized area measure on unit disk . Lemma 5 ([
28])
. For any , , , there exists a constant (depending only on T and K, but independent of t, α, and z) such that for all , , , Lemma 6. For any , and , there exists a constant such that Proof. For any
, by the fundamental properties of weighted Bergman spaces, we note that
. Since
, we have
. Then by Lemma 4,
Differentiating with respect to
z, we obtain
Therefore,
by Lemma 5, there exists
such that
Using the identity
, we have
so that
Since
, we have
, so
and thus
. Therefore,
where
, and we may take
. □
Lemma 7. Let , , () be positive integers. Let be a holomorphic self-map on . Then for all , there exists a constant such that Proof. For any
, let
We first derive the explicit form of
by computing its entries. For any
with
and
, we have
Therefore,
is an
positive semi-definite Hermitian matrix, whose explicit form is
Subtracting this matrix from the
identity matrix
I, we obtain the matrix
Since
, the matrix
is positive definite. In particular, all its diagonal entries are positive, i.e.,
In particular, for any fixed indices
, we have
Taking the product over all
and
, we obtain
Combining inequalities (
5) and (
6), we obtain
By the inequality (
9), we have
Since
, it follows that
Since
and
, we have
Eventually, from inequalities (
6) and (
7), we can find a constant
satisfying
where
. Combining all the estimates above, we conclude that
Furthermore, by Lemma 6, we can find constants
C and
satisfying
where
.
□
Lemma 8 ([
26])
. Let with . Then andEquality holds if .
Lemma 9. For all and , the following holds: Proof. The definition of
directly implies that
Therefore,
which completes the proof. □
Lemma 10. Let be a holomorphic self-map on , and let . Then the weighted composition–differentiation operator is compact if and only if is bounded, and for any bounded sequence in that converges uniformly to 0 on every compact subset K of , we have Proof. Let
be a compact operator, and let
be a bounded sequence in
converging uniformly to 0 on every compact subset of
. Suppose, on the other hand, that
as
. Then we can extract a subsequence
of
satisfying
By the compactness of
, we may extract a further subsequence of
(still denoted
for simplicity) with
From Lemma 9, the following holds:
Now let
K be any compact subset of
. Then
has a positive lower bound on
K. Thus,
uniformly on
K. This means that for any
, there exists
with the property that for all
,
for all
.
According to our assumption,
converges uniformly to 0 on every compact subset of
. According to the Weierstrass theorem,
also converges uniformly to 0 on every compact subset. Thus, for the above
, let
be a positive integer with the property that
, for all
and every
. Let
and
. Then for all
, we get
Because
can be taken to be arbitrarily small, we obtain
on
K. According to the identity theorem for holomorphic functions, this implies that
throughout
. Therefore,
contradicting the assumption that
.
In the opposite direction, assume is any bounded sequence in so that for some constant and all n. Then is uniformly bounded on every compact subset of . Montel’s theorem guarantees the existence of a subsequence of that converges uniformly to some holomorphic function f on every compact subset of .
For any fixed , there exists a compact subset fulfilling . Since uniformly on as , there exists satisfying , for all and .
By the arbitrariness of
, we conclude that for all
,
This immediately implies that
, and hence
Thus,
on every compact subset of
as
. Consequently, we get
This shows that the operator is compact. □