Boundary vs. interior conditions associated with weighted composition operators

Abstract

Abstract Associated with some properties of weighted composition operators on the spaces of bounded harmonic and analytic functions on the open unit disk $$\mathbb{D}$$, we obtain conditions in terms of behavior of weight functions and analytic self-maps on the interior $$\mathbb{D}$$ and on the boundary $$\partial \mathbb{D}$$ respectively. We give direct proofs of the equivalence of these interior and boundary conditions. Furthermore we give another proof of the estimate for the essential norm of the difference of weighted composition operators.