Let $ \mathcal{H}(\mathbb{D}) $ be the space of analytic functions on the unit disc $ \mathbb{D} $ of the complex plane $ \mathbb{C} $. For $ 0<p<\infty $, the Hardy space $ H^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ consists of all functions $ f\in\mathcal{H}(\mathbb{D}) $ such that
In this paper, we are more interested in Derivative Hardy spaces $ S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ which are defined by
with norm
The main objective of this paper is to study the Duhamel product $ \circledast $ on the $ S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ space. The Duhamel product is defined as follows (see [1]):
The problem about the Duhamel product is not new. Wigley[1] introduced this product and showed that the complex-valued function space is a Banach algebra with respect to the Duhamel product $ \circledast $. In 1975, Wigley[2] showed that the Hardy space $ H^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ is a Banach algebra with respect to the Duhamel product $ \circledast $. Afterward, Merryfield and Watson extended this result to $ H^{p} $ of the polydisc[3]. Then, the study of Duhamel products $ \circledast $ attracted many scholars. Karaev and Tuna[4], showed that $ C^{(n)}(\overline{\mathbb{D}}) $ is a commutative unital Banach algebra with respect to the Duhamel product. Gürdal[5] extended some of Duhamel product properties to the analytic sequence space $ l_{A}^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $. Recently, Guediri and his collaborators[6] showed that the Bergman space is a commutative unital Banach algebra with respect to the Duhamel product. For more information about the Duhamel product, see [4, 6-10].
This paper gives a Banach algebra structure with respect to the Duhamel product $ \circledast $ in $ S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ spaces. Then, we consider the invertibility criterion of the Duhamel product $ \circledast $. For the invertibility criterion, Volterra integration operator $ V $ is essential in the proof process. Moreover, the invertibility criterion has two interesting results, the maximal ideal space consists of one homomorphism and the spectrum of $ f $ consists of one point $ f(0) $. In section 3, we will consider the extended eigenvalue of Volterra integration operator $ V $. In fact, the study of the extended eigenvalue of Volterra integration operator $ V $ has a lot of rich results. Biswas and his collaborators[11] considered the case of $ L^{2}(0, 1) $. Karaev[7] described the extended eigenvalues of $ V $ in $ n $-th differentiable functions space. For more information, we recommend [4, 6, 8-10]. Then, we also give some characterizations of the bounded linear operator on $ S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $.
For convenience, we use the notation $ X\lesssim Y $ or $ Y\lesssim X $ to mean $ X<CY $ or $ Y<CX $, where $ C $ is positive constant. Similarly, we use the notation $ X\approx Y $ if both $ X\lesssim $ and $ Y\lesssim $ hold.
Elementary calculation shows that the Duhamel product-$ \circledast $ can also be given by
Apparently, it is a commutative product. Then, take the derivative of the above equation (see [1])
Lemma 2.1 Let $ 1\leq p<\infty $, for any $ f\in S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $, then (see [12])
Since $ t\in[0, \frac{z}{2}] $, by the above Lemma, we have $ |f'(t)|\lesssim\|f\|_{S^{p}} $.
To simplify the notation, we denote $ \int^{\frac{z}{2}}_{0}|f'(z-t)|\, |dt| $ and $ \int^{\frac{z}{2}}_{0}|g'(z-t)|\, |dt| $ by $ F(z) $ and $ G(z) $. Next we consider
Lemma 2.2 Let $ p>1 $, then $ M_{p}(F, r)\lesssim(1-|z|)^{1-\frac{1}{p}}\|f\|_{S^{p}} $.
Proof Let $ z=re^{i\theta} $, $ 0\leq r<1 $, and $ t=\rho e^{i\theta} $, then we have
Thus, we get
The proof of Lemma is complete.
Theorem 2.3 Suppose that $ 1<p<\infty $, the $ S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ space is a unital and commutative Banach algebra with respect to the Duhamel product $ \circledast $, which we will denote $ (S^{p}(\mathbb{D}), \circledast) $.
Proof Firstly, $ S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ is a Banach space. By (2.1), Lemma 2.1 and Minkowski inequality, we have
The proof is complete.
Corollary 2.4 $ (S^{p}(\mathbb{D}), \circledast) $ is an involutive algebra (cf. [13]), the involution is a map
where $ f^{\ast}=\overline{f(\overline{z})} $.
Proof Let $ f\in S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $, then we have
We can get $ f^{\ast}\in S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $. Clearly, the involution on $ (S^{p}(\mathbb{D}), \circledast) $ is satisfying $ (f^{\ast})^{\ast}=f $, and $ (\alpha\circledast f+\beta\circledast g)^{\ast}=\overline{\alpha}\circledast f^{\ast}+\overline{\beta}\circledast g^{\ast} $ for all $ f\, , g\in S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $, $ \alpha\, , \beta\in\mathbb{C} $. Next we prove that $ (f\circledast g)^{\ast}=f^{\ast}\circledast g^{\ast} $,
which implies that $ (S^{p}(\mathbb{D}), \circledast) $ is an involutive algebra, or a $ \ast $-algebra.
In [6], Guediri and his collaborators, see the Duhamel product as a special operator, which is called the Duhamel convolution operator with analytic symbol $ f $. For convenience, we call this operators as Duhamel convolution operator and denote it by
Clearly, if $ f(z)=z $ then $ \mathcal{D}_{f}g=Vg=\int_{0}^{z}g(t)dt $ is the Volterra integration operator. Moreover, $ \mathcal{D}_{f}V=V\mathcal{D}_{f} $. Next we consider the operator norm of $ \mathcal{D}_{f} $.
Theorem 2.5 Suppose that $ 1<p<\infty $, then $ \mathcal{D}_{f} $ from $ S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ to $ S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ is bounded if and only if $ f\in S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $. Moreover, the norm of operator satisfies $ \|\mathcal{D}_{f}\|\approx\|f\|_{S^{p}}. $
Proof Firstly, by Theorem 2.3 and Minkowski inequality we have
Conversely, if $ \mathcal{D}_{f} $ is bounded. Take test function $ g=1 $, then
So we get $ \|\mathcal{D}_{f}\|\approx\|f\|_{S^{p}} $. The proof of Theorem 2.5 is complete.
For the invertibility criterion of the Duhamel product, the Volterra integration operator acts as a bond. In the next Theorem we need the following convolutions(see [14])
where the notation * means
Before we start proving the theorem, we need the following lemma.
Lemma 2.6 (see [15]) The Taylor series of every function $ f\in S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ with $ f(0)=0 $ converges in norm if and only if $ 1<p<\infty $.
Proof Let $ 1<p<\infty $, if $ f\in S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $, then $ f'(z)\in H^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $. By Corollary 3 of [15], the Taylor series of every function in $ H^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ converges in norm $ \|\cdot\|_{H^{p}} $. We get the Taylor series of $ f'(z) $ converges in norm $ \|\cdot\|_{H^{p}} $, i.e.
Theorem 2.7 Let $ 1<p<\infty $. Then $ f\in S_{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ is $ \circledast $-invertible if and only if $ f(0)\neq0 $.
Proof If $ f(z)\in S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ is $ \circledast $-invertible, then there exists $ g\in S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ such that
Clearly, if $ z=0 $ we have $ f(0)g(0)=1 $, i.e. $ f(0)\neq0 $.
On the other hand, if $ f(0)\neq0 $, let $ F(z)=f(z)-f(0) $. Then, we consider the operator $ \mathcal{D}_{F}\, :\, S^{p}(\mathbb{D})\rightarrow S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $, defined by as follow
Next, we show that $ \mathcal{D}_{F} $ is compact. For the partial Taylor series
Then,
So, we deduced that
Thus, $ \mathcal{D}_{F_{N}} $ is compact on $ S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $. Since
we have
Let $ N\rightarrow \infty $, then by Lemma 2.6 and Theorem 1.18 of [18], we deduced that $ \mathcal{D}_{F} $ is compact. Now, suppose that $ g\in {\rm ker}\mathcal{D}_{f} $, i.e.
We get $ g(0)=0 $. Then derivative of the above equation, we have
We get $ g'(0)=0 $. Similarly, by repeating the derivative process, we deduced that $ g^{(n)}(0)=0 $. So we get $ g=0 $, i.e. $ {\rm ker}\mathcal{D}_{f}=\{0\} $. Notice that
Since $ \mathcal{D}_{F} $ is compact, $ \mathcal{D}_{f} $ is injective and $ f(0)\neq 0 $. Then, according to Fredholm alternative theorem (see [16, Theorem 3.22]). We infer that $ \mathcal{D}_{f} $ is invertible in $ S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $. The proof is complete.
Corollary 2.8 The maximal ideal space $ \mathcal{M}(S^{p}, \circledast) $ consists of only one homomorphism.
Proof Apparently, the spectrum of any $ f\in S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ consists of only one point $ f(0) $. The functions which vanish at the origin form a maximal ideal, since no proper ideal of $ (S^{p}(\mathbb{D}), \circledast) $ contains any invertible $ f $, and hence $ \mathcal{M} $ is only one homomorphism, and Gelfand transform is trivial.
In this section, we consider the extended eigenvalue of Volterra integration operator $ V $. Let $ \lambda $ be a complex number, if there exists a nonzero operator $ X $ satisfying the equation $ XV=\lambda VX $, then we say $ \lambda $ is an extended eigenvalue of $ V $. In the next assertion, we consider the extended eigenvector of the Volterra integration operator $ V $. For all bounded linear operators in the $ S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ space we denote by $ \mathcal{B}(S^{p}(\mathbb{D})) $.
Theorem 3.1 Let $ \lambda\neq0\in\mathbb{C} $, $ 1\leq p<\infty $, and $ X\in\mathcal{B}(S^{p}(\mathbb{D})) $, then we have
(1) Suppose that $ |\lambda|\leq1 $, then, $ XV=\lambda VX $ if and only if $ X=\mathcal{D}_{X1}{\mathcal{C}_{\lambda}}. $
(2) Suppose that $ |\lambda|>1 $, then, $ XV=\lambda VX $ if and only if $ X\mathcal{C}_{\frac{1}{\lambda}}=\mathcal{D}_{X1}. $
Proof Firstly we consider (1), if $ XV=\lambda VX $, then $ XV^{n}=\lambda^{n}V^{n}X $. In particular, take the function $ 1 $, we have $ XV^{n}1=\lambda^{n}V^{n}X1 $. By (2.2), we get
then
Similarly, for any polynomial $ P(z) $
Since the polynomial is dense, we get
We deduce that
Then take derivative of the above equation,
Conversely, suppose that $ X=\mathcal{D}_{X1}C_{\lambda} $, then
Thus we have $ XV=\lambda VX $.
The proof of (2) is similar to that of (1), and a brief proof is given for completeness. Suppose that $ |\lambda|>1 $, then $ V^{n}X=\frac{1}{\lambda^{n}}XV^{n} $. Choose the function $ 1 $, we get $ V^{n}X1=\frac{1}{\lambda^{n}}XV^{n}1 $. By (2.2) we have
i.e.
Since ploynoimal is dense, we deduce that
Taking the derivative of the above equation, we get $ XC_{\frac{1}{\lambda}}=\mathcal{D}_{X1} $.
Conversely, suppose that $ XC_{\frac{1}{\lambda}}=\mathcal{D}_{X1} $, then
Since
so, for any polynomials $ P(z) $ we get
By density, we get $ \lambda VXf=XVf $. The proof of the Theorem 2.5 is complete.
If $ \lambda=1 $, we have $ X=\mathcal{D}_{X1} $, i.e the commutant of the Volterra operator on the $ S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ is the Duhamel product.
Remark 1 The commutants of the Volterra integration operator on the $ S^{p}(\mathbb{D}) $ is characterized by $ \{V\}'=\{\mathcal{D}_{f}:\, f\in S^{p}(\mathbb{D})\} $.
Corollary 3.2 Let $ f\in S^{2}(\mathbb{D}) $, $ \rm the Duhamel convolution operator $ $ \mathfrak{D}_{f}=\overline{{\rm alg}\{V\}} $, where
Clearly, $ V\mathfrak{D}_{f}=\mathfrak{D}_{f}V $ and $ S^{2}(\mathbb{D}) $ is a Hilbert space. By Theorem 2.5 we have $ \mathfrak{D}_{f}\in\mathcal{B}(S^{2}(\mathbb{D})) $. Every bounded linear operator commuting with $ V $ is in the strongly closed algebra generated by $ V $ (see [14, 17]). So, $ \mathfrak{D}_{f}=\overline{{\rm alg}\{V\}} $.