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In this work we study the essential spectra of composition operators on weighted Bergman spaces of analytic functions which might be termed as “quasi-parabolic.” This is the class of composition operators on \(A_{\alpha }^{2}\) with symbols whose conjugate with the Cayley transform on the upper half-plane are of the form \(\varphi (z)=\) \(z+\psi (z)\), where \(\psi \in \) \(H^{\infty }({\mathbb {H}})\) and \(\mathfrak {I}(\psi (z))> \epsilon > 0\). We especially examine the case where \(\psi \) is discontinuous at infinity. A similar method used in Gül (J Math Anal Appl 377:771–791, 2011) for Hardy spaces is used to show that this type of composition operators fall in a C*-algebra of Toeplitz operators and Fourier multipliers. This method enables us to provide new examples of essentially normal composition operators and to calculate their essential spectra.
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Communicated by Terhorst, Dmitry, Izchak and Alpay.
Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Tosun Terzioğlu (1942–2016) with deep gratitude for all he did for Turkish Mathematical Community.
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Gül, U. Quasi-parabolic Composition Operators on Weighted Bergman Spaces. Complex Anal. Oper. Theory 12, 55–79 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11785-016-0577-9
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