Composition Operators: And Classical Function Theory (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1993)

The study of composition operators forges links between fundamental properties of linear operators and beautiful results from the classical theory of analytic functions. This book provides a self-contained introduction to both the subject and its function-theoretic underpinnings, and features a development accessible to anyone who has studied basic graduate level real and complex analysis. The work traces how such operator-theoretic issues as boundedness, compactness, and cyclicity, when studied in the context of composition operators, evolve into questions about subordination, value-distribution, angular derivatives, iteration, and functional equations; and it carefully develops each of these classical topics.