Compact composition operators on the Nevanlinna class

Abstract

In this paper we prove that the composition operator induced by a holomorphic self-map of the unit disc is compact on the Nevanlinna class if and only if it is compact on the Hardy space <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper H squared"> <mml:semantics> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>H</mml:mi> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:msup> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">H^2</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> .