berezin's operator calculus and higher order schwarz–pick lemma
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Berezin's operator calculus and higherorder Schwarz–Pick lemmaBo Li a & Yifei Pan ba Department of Mathematics, The University of Toledo, Toledo,OH 43606, USAb Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, USAVersion of record first published: 25 Feb 2011.
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Complex Variables and Elliptic EquationsVol. 57, No. 5, May 2012, 523–538
Berezin’s operator calculus and higher order Schwarz–Pick lemma
Bo Lia* and Yifei Panb
aDepartment of Mathematics, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA;bDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort
Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, USA
Communicated by Massimo Lanza de Cristoforis
(Received 23 December 2009; final version received 12 May 2010)
We provide a new and simple proof to the result in our study of Berezin’soperator calculus [B. Li, The Berezin transform and mth order Bergmanmetric, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. (to appear)] that the mth order Bergmanmetric (Bm@v)(z) is a constant multiple of {(B1@v)(z)}
m on the unit ball,where (B1@v)(z) is the classical Bergman metric. Based on the reproducing-kernel theory, an approximation approach is developed to treat (Bm@v)(z)on the unit ball and C
n in a uniform way. Secondly, we discuss the interplaybetween our analysis in Berezin’s operator calculus and the higher orderSchwarz–Pick lemma in Dai et al. [S. Dai, H. Chen, and Y. Pan, TheSchwarz–Pick lemma of high order in several variables, Michigan Math. J.(to appear)]. As a consequence, the mth order Caratheodory–Reiffen metric(Cm@v)(z) is shown to be a constant multiple of {(C1@v)(z)}
m also on the unitball, where (C1@v)(z) is the classical infinitesimal Caratheodory–Reiffenmetric.
Keywords: Berezin transform; Schwarz–Pick lemma
AMS Subject Classifications: Primary 32F45; Secondary 47B32; 32A36
1. Introduction
Let � be a domain in Cn and H a Hilbert space of holomorphic functions on �. H is
called a holomorphic Hilbert space if the evaluation functional at each point z2� iscontinuous on H [1]. In this case, there is a unique function Kz2H such thatf(z)¼h f,Kzi for every f2H. The function K(w, z)¼Kz(w) on ��� is called thereproducing kernel of H and holomorphic in the first variable and conjugateholomorphic in the second one. We will assume throughout this article thatkKzk
2¼K(z, z)40 for all z2�, and the set P of holomorphic polynomials is
included in H.For a fixed point a2�, let V ¼
Pnj¼1vj ðzÞ
@@zj¼Pn
j¼1vj ðzÞ@j be a nonzeroholomorphic vector field on � with v 0j s holomorphic, and for m� 1 define
SmðV, aÞ ¼ f f2H : k f k � 1, ðVjf ÞðaÞ ¼ 0, j ¼ 0, 1, . . . ,m� 1g, ð1Þ
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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where V 0¼ I is the identity operator. We denote by S0(V, a)¼ { f2H : k fk� 1}
the closed unit ball of H. It is clear that Sm(V, a) is nonempty since it contains
functions of the form cðz� aÞ� ¼ cQn
j¼1ðzj � aj Þ�j with j�j ¼
Pnj¼1 �j � m, where
c¼k(z� a)�k�1. Let
ðRmV ÞðaÞ ¼ supf2SmðV,aÞ
jðVmf ÞðaÞj2 ð2Þ
and write
fðBmV ÞðaÞg2 ¼ Kða, aÞ�1ðRmV ÞðaÞ: ð3Þ
It is standard that (R0V )(a)¼K(a, a) and (B0V )(a)¼ 1 [2].Note that for m� 1, the iteration Vm of a holomorphic vector field
V ¼Pn
j¼1 vj ðzÞ@j can be considered as a holomorphic differential operator of the
form Vm ¼Pmj�j¼0 f�ðzÞ@
� for some holomorphic functions f�’s on �. For fixed a2�
and each m� 1, the linear functional Vma : f! ðVmf ÞðaÞ defined on H is bounded by
Cauchy estimates and the fact that the norm of f2H dominates its supremum norm
over any compact set by the reproducing property f(z)¼h f,Kzi. So there exists a
unique element KVm,a2H such that
ðVmf ÞðaÞ ¼ h f,KVm,ai ð4Þ
and
KVm,aðzÞ ¼ hKVm,a,Kzi ¼ hKz,KVm,ai ¼ ðVmKzÞðaÞ:
For fixed vector field V, we write ea, j(z)¼KVj,a(z) for j¼ 0, 1, . . . ,m. In turn, (1)
and (2) can be rewritten as
SmðV, aÞ ¼ f f2S0ðV, aÞ : h f, ea, ji ¼ 0, j ¼ 0, 1, . . . ,m� 1g
and
ðRmV ÞðaÞ ¼ supf2SmðV,aÞ
jh f, ea,mij2: ð5Þ
Let Ha,m be the closed subspace spanned by fea, jgm�1j¼0 and PH?a,m be the orthogonal
projection onto H?a,m, the orthogonal complement space of Ha,m in H. Then
(RmV )(a) is exactly the square of the operator norm of the linear functional Vma
restricted to H?a,m by (2), and
ðRmV ÞðaÞ ¼ kPH?a,mea,mk2 ð6Þ
by (5) in the point of view of Hilbert space geometry. We remark that it is convenient
to view Bm in (3) as a mapping that associates a holomorphic vector field with a
function on �.Now suppose that H1 on �1 and H2 on �2 are two holomorphic Hilbert spaces
normed by k f k2H1¼R
�1j f ðzÞj2 d�1ðzÞ and k gk
2H2¼R
�2j gðwÞj2 d�2ðwÞ, where d�1
and d�2 are positive Borel measures on �1 and �2, respectively. Let be a
biholomorphic mapping of �1 onto �2 and assume that there is a nonvanishing
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holomorphic function j on �1 such that
�2ð ðN ÞÞ ¼
ZN
j j ðzÞj2 d�1ðzÞ ð7Þ
for each Borel subset N of �1. Then the change of variable formula (7) implies that
the operator
ðU f ÞðzÞ ¼ ð f � ÞðzÞ j ðzÞ ð8Þ
is an isometry of H2 onto H1, which in turn gives rise to
Kð�1Þðz,wÞ ¼ Kð�2Þð ðzÞ, ðwÞÞ j ðzÞj ðwÞ: ð9Þ
Consequently, using the unitary operator U in (8) and the identity (9), as in the
proof of Proposition 3.1 in [3], it is easy to show that for such , Bm enjoys the
transformation property as follows:
ðBmV Þð�1ÞðzÞ ¼ ðBm �ðV ÞÞ
ð�2Þð ðzÞÞ, ð10Þ
where �(V ) is the push-forward of the vector field V under .In particular, we specialize the vector field V to be the constant vector field
@v ¼Pn
j¼1 vj@j with v¼ (v1, . . . , vn)2Cn\{0}. In this case, we write ej ð�Þ ¼ ea, jð�Þ ¼
K@ jv ,að�Þ ¼ ð �@ j
vKÞð�, aÞ ¼ ð�@ jvKaÞð�Þ if no confusion arises. Then the set fejg
mj¼0 is linearly
independent in H since the set of holomorphic polynomials PH by our
assumption. An application of the Gram–Schmidt orthogonalization process gives
an orthonormal basis f’igmi¼0 for Ha,mþ1, where [4]
’0 ¼ J�1
2
0 e0,
’i ¼ fJi�1Jig�1
2
he0, e0i � � � he0, ei�1i e0
..
. . .. ..
. ...
hei, e0i � � � hei, ei�1i ei
����������������
for i¼ 1, . . . ,m, and
Ji ¼ Jið@v, aÞ ¼
he0, e0i � � � he0, eii
..
. . .. ..
.
hei, e0i � � � hei, eii
����������������
is the determinant of the Gram-matrix of the system fejgij¼0 for i¼ 0, 1, . . . ,m.
Note that Ji40 due to the linear independence of fejgij¼0 [4] for i¼ 0, 1, . . . ,m, and
(Bm@v)(a) can be expressed in a closed form in terms of the kernel function, i.e. [4]
ðRm@vÞðaÞ ¼ J�1m�1Jm, fðBm@vÞðaÞg2 ¼ fJ0Jm�1g
�1Jm, m � 1: ð11Þ
As remarked in [3], (Bm@v)(a) is homogeneous in v of degree m, and is NOT, strictly
speaking, an infinitesimal metric as m41. Care must be taken in considering
‘‘transformation laws’’ (10) for (Bm@v)(a) for m41. We also remark that for fixed
domain �, the quantity (Bm@v)(a) relies on the specific Hilbert space structure of H
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on �. The notation (Bm@v)(a) will be abused without indicating the holomorphic
Hilbert space H which is to be clear from the context.The prototypes of the spaces H are the Bergman spaces A2(�, d�) of all
holomorphic functions in L2(�, d�) on a bounded domain �Cn with the
normalized volume measure d�(z)¼V(�)�1dV(z) where dV is the Lebesgue measure
and V(�) is the volume of � with respect to dV, or the Segal–Bargmann space
H2(Cn, d�) of all entire functions in L2(Cn, d�) for the Gaussian measure
d�ðzÞ ¼ ð2�Þ�ne�jzj2
2 dVðzÞ:
For H¼A2(�, d�), the reproducing kernel K(z,w) is then just the original kernel
function of Bergman [4], and (Bm@v)(a) is exactly the mth order Bergman metric as
introduced by Burbea in [5]. In particular, (B1@v)(a) is the classical Bergman metric.
For H¼H2(Cn, d�), the kernel function Kðz,wÞ ¼ ehz,wi2 and (B1@v)(a) coincides (up to
a constant factor) with the Euclidean metric. As a Hermitian metric, the classical
Bergman metric can also be defined as
B1ða, vÞ ¼ ðB1@vÞðaÞ ¼
�Xnj,k¼1
@2
@zj@ �zklogKða, aÞvj �vk
�12
ð12Þ
for v2Tz(�)ffiCn the tangent space at z2� [6].
The motivation for us to study the mapping Bm originates from the recent
intensive research on Berezin’s operator calculus [7–12]. The Berezin transform,
introduced by Berezin in his quantization programme [13,14], provides a general
symbol calculus for linear operators on any holomorphic Hilbert space. More
specifically, for H a holomorphic Hilbert space on � and X2Op(H) the algebra of
bounded linear operators on H, the Berezin transform (or symbol) of X is given byeXðzÞ ¼ hXkz, kzi ¼ trðXAðzÞÞ, ð13Þ
where kzð�Þ ¼ Kð�, zÞKðz, zÞ�12 is the normalized kernel function at z, and
AðzÞ ¼ kz � kz ¼ h�, kzikz ð14Þ
is the projection onto the span of kz. It is well-known that eX is real analytic with
keXk1 � kXk, and X is uniquely determined by eX.The study on the interaction between the mth order Bergman metric and
Berezin’s operator calculus was initiated in [3] most recently, where the relationship
between (Bm@v)(a) and (B1@v)(a) has also been investigated. In particular, it was
shown there that for H¼A2(Bn, d�) on the open unit ball,
ðBm@vÞðaÞ ¼
�m!ðmþ nÞ!
n!ðnþ 1Þm
�12
fðB1@vÞðaÞgm: ð15Þ
In the same paper, it was also proved separately that an identity similar to (15) holds
with different constant factor on Cn for H¼H2(Cn, d�) (see Theorem 3.14 and
Theorem 3.18 of [3]).In view of the simple intuition that C
n could be considered as a ball with infinite
radius, and the fact that (Bm@v)(a) is ‘‘intrinsic’’ as interpreted in (10), it would be
of interest to find an approach that could deal with both cases uniformly in this
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Bergman-type spaces setting. It turns out that this goal can be achieved by
approximating the scaled Segal–Bargmann space H2(Cn, d�p) by a class of
holomorphic Hilbert spaces in an appropriate way, where d�pðzÞ ¼pn
�n e�pjzj2dVðzÞ.
This uniform treatment will be developed in Section 2 and Section 3, while a different
proof of (15) will be provided in the setting ofH¼A2(Bn, d��) the weighted Bergman
space in Section 2.Motivated by the definition of mth order Bergman metric, we introduce another
mapping Dm from the space of holomorphic vector fields to the set of functions on �
in Section 5, and provide an estimates for (Dm@v)(z) on the unit ball using our
analysis of Berezin’s operator calculus. It turns out that this estimate coincides with
the other one which is a direct consequence of the higher order Schwarz-Pick lemma
in [15] except a different constant factor. In our argument, we need an iteration
formula in [3] which will be refined by determining all coefficients completely in
Section 4.In Section 6, using the refined formula in Section 4 and the higher order Schwarz-
Pick lemma in [15], we are able to show that on the unit ball Bn,
ðCm@vÞðzÞ ¼ m!fðC1@vÞðzÞgm,
where (Cm@v)(z) is the mth order Caratheodory-Reiffen metric [5], and (C1@v)(z) is theclassical infinitesimal Caratheodory-Reiffen metric.
We conclude by pointing out that by using the refined formula in Section 4 and
some result in Section 6, our estimate for (Dm@v)(z) in Section 5 can be improved to
be the same as the other one directly from the higher order Schwarz-Pick lemma.
This perfect coincidence discloses some intimate relation between our analysis in
Berezin’s operator calculus and the higher order Schwarz-Pick lemma.
2. A new proof
In this section, we extend (15) to the setting of weighted Bergman space A2(Bn, d��)by a different proof, which provides the foundation for our method of approxima-
tion in Section 3.For �4�1, let d��(z)¼ c� (1� jzj2)�d�(z) be the probability measure on B
n
where c� ¼�ðnþ�þ1Þn!�ð�þ1Þ . For H¼A2(d��)¼A2(Bn, d��) the weighted Bergman space on
the unit ball Bn, the reproducing kernel is given by [16]
K�ðz,wÞ ¼1
ð1� hz,wiÞnþ1þ�¼ Kðz,wÞ
nþ1þ�nþ1 , ð16Þ
where K(z,w) is the kernel function of the standard Bergman space A2(Bn, d�) as�¼ 0. It is easy to check that the Bergman metric (12) induced by K�(z,w) on B
n is
fðB1@vÞðaÞg2 ¼ðnþ 1þ �Þfð1� jaj2Þjvj2 þ jha, vij2g
ð1� jaj2Þ2ð17Þ
by (16) and Proposition 1.4.22 in [17].It is standard that for each a in B
n, there is a a2Aut(Bn), the group of all
biholomorphic self-mapping on Bn, with the properties a(a)¼ 0 and a � a¼ I, the
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identity map. More precisely,
aðzÞ ¼a� Paz�
ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1� jaj2
pQaz
1� hz, ai, ð18Þ
where P0¼ 0, Pa ¼1jaj2
a� a for a 6¼ 0, and Qa¼ I�Pa [18].
LEMMA 2.1 For a, z2Bn, v2C
n and a2Aut(Bn),
hz, við1� h aðzÞ, aiÞ ¼ ha, vi � h aðzÞ, �i,
where � ¼ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1� jaj2
pvþ hv, ai
1þffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1�jaj2p a with j�j2¼ (1� jaj2)jvj2þ jha, vij2.
Proof Without loss of generality, suppose that a 6¼ 0. By the involutive property
of a, it suffices to show that
h aðzÞ, við1� hz, aiÞ ¼ ha, vi � hz, �i:
By (18),
h aðzÞ, við1� hz, aiÞ ¼Da� Paz�
ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1� jaj2
qQaz, v
E¼ ha, vi �
1
jaj2hz, aiha, vi �
ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1� jaj2
qhz, vi þ
ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1� jaj2
pjaj2
hz, aiha, vi
¼ ha, vi �Dz,
ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1� jaj2
qvE�
1
1þffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1� jaj2
p hz, aiha, vi
¼ ha, vi �
*z,
ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1� jaj2
qvþ
hv, ai
1þffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1� jaj2
p a
+:
Let � ¼ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1� jaj2
pvþ hv, ai
1þffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1�jaj2p a, and a direct calculation shows that j�j2¼
(1� jaj2)jvj2þ jha, vij2, which finishes the proof. g
In the setting of weighted Bergman space A2(d��), the key point of our new
method is to express the basis fej ¼ �@ jvK
�að�Þg
mj¼0 of Ha,mþ1 in terms of a set of
orthogonal elements.
PROPOSITION 2.2 For j� 0,
�@ jvK
�aðwÞ ¼
�ð jþ nþ 1þ �Þ
�ðnþ 1þ �Þð1� jaj2Þ�ð
nþ1þ�2 þj Þ
Xj�¼0
j
�
� �ð�1Þ�ha, vij��h aðwÞ, �i
�k�aðwÞ,
where � ¼ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1� jaj2
pvþ hv, ai
1þffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1�jaj2p a with j�j2¼ (1� jaj2)jvj2þ jha, vij2, and the set
fh aðwÞ, �i�k�aðwÞg
j�¼0 consists of orthogonal elements in A2(d��).
Proof For v2Cn\{0}, we write �@ j
vK�ðw, uÞju¼a ¼ �@ j
vK�aðwÞ. By (16), it is easy to see that
�@ jvK
�aðwÞ ¼
�ð jþ nþ 1þ �Þ
�ðnþ 1þ �Þhw, vijð1� hw, aiÞ�ð jþnþ1þ�Þ:
Since the normalized kernel function k�a at a is
k�aðwÞ ¼K�ðw, aÞ
K�ða, aÞ12
¼ð1� jaj2Þ
nþ1þ�2
ð1� hw, aiÞnþ1þ�
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and [18]
1� h aðwÞ, ai ¼1� jaj2
1� hw, ai,
it follows that
hw, vijð1� hw, aiÞ�ð jþnþ1þ�Þ ¼ ð1� jaj2Þ�ðnþ1þ�
2 þj Þk�aðwÞ hw, við1� h aðwÞ, aiÞ� j
¼ ð1� jaj2Þ�ðnþ1þ�
2 þj Þk�aðwÞ ha, vi � h aðwÞ, �i� j
,
where the last equality follows from Lemma 2.1. Therefore,
�@ jvK
�aðwÞ ¼
�ð jþ nþ 1þ �Þ
�ðnþ 1þ �Þð1� jaj2Þ�ð
nþ1þ�2 þj Þk�aðwÞ½ha, vi � h aðwÞ, �i�
j
¼�ð jþ nþ 1þ �Þ
�ðnþ 1þ �Þð1� jaj2Þ�ð
nþ1þ�2 þj Þ
Xj�¼0
j
�
� �ð�1Þ�ha, vij��h aðwÞ, �i
�k�aðwÞ:
Next we need to show the orthogonality of elements in the set
fh aðwÞ, �i�k�aðwÞg
j�¼0. For this purpose, we consider the operator Ua associated
with a on A2(d��), defined by
ðUa f ÞðwÞ ¼ ð f � aÞðwÞk�aðwÞ:
Then it is easy to see that Ua is unitary on A2(d��) by Proposition 1.13 in [16]. Since
hw, �i�� j
�¼0is an orthogonal set in A2(d��) by (1.21) in [16], and
Uafhw, �i�g ¼ h aðwÞ, �i
�k�aðwÞ,
our assertion follows easily and the proof is completed. g
The next result gives the estimate for the greatest possible rate of growth of
higher order directional derivatives of Bergman space functions on the unit ball.
COROLLARY 2.3 For f2A2(d��) and m� 0,
maxk f k�1
jð@mv f ÞðaÞj2 ¼
½�ðmþ nþ 1þ �Þ�2
�ðnþ 1þ �Þðnþ 1þ �ÞmK�ða, aÞfðB1@vÞðaÞg
2m
�Xm�¼0
ðm!Þ2
�!½ðm� �Þ!�2�ð�þ nþ 1þ �Þ
jha, vij2
j�j2
� �m��
:
In particular, for �¼ 0,
maxk f k�1
jð@mv f ÞðaÞj2 ¼ðmþ nÞ!m!
n!ðnþ 1ÞmKða, aÞfðB1@vÞðaÞg
2mXm�¼0
m
�
� �mþ n
�þ n
� �jha, vij2
j�j2
� �m��
�½ðmþ nÞ!�2m!
ðn!Þ2ðnþ 1ÞmKða, aÞfðB1@vÞðaÞg
2m 1þjha, vij2
j�j2
� �m
: ð19Þ
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Proof By (4) with V¼ @v and Proposition 2.2, we know that
maxk f k�1
jð@mv f ÞðaÞj2 ¼ k �@mv K
�ak
2
¼�ðmþ nþ 1þ �Þ
�ðnþ 1þ �Þð1� jaj2Þ�ð
nþ1þ�2 þmÞ
Xm�¼0
m
�
� �ð�1Þ�ha, vim��h aðwÞ, �i
�k�aðwÞ
2
¼�ðmþ nþ 1þ �Þ
�ðnþ 1þ �Þð1� jaj2Þ�ð
nþ1þ�2 þmÞ
���� ����2Xm�¼0
m
�
� �ha, vim��
���� ����2 h aðwÞ, �i�k�aðwÞ
2:The rest of the proof follows from (17) and the fact that
h aðwÞ, �i�k�aðwÞ
2¼ khw, �i�k2 ¼ �ðnþ �þ 1Þ�!
�ð�þ nþ 1þ �Þj�j2�
by Lemma 1.11 of [16]. g
Now we are ready to state the main result of this section.
THEOREM 2.4 On A2(d��),
ðBm@vÞðaÞ ¼�ðmþ nþ 1þ �Þm!
�ðnþ 1þ �Þðnþ 1þ �Þm
� �12
fðB1@vÞðaÞgm: ð20Þ
Proof By Proposition 2.2, we know
ðPH?a,memÞðwÞ ¼ ½PH?a,mð�@mv K
�aÞ�ðwÞ
¼�ðmþ nþ 1þ �Þ
�ðnþ 1þ �Þð�1Þmð1� jaj2Þ�ð
nþ1þ�2 þmÞh aðwÞ, �i
mk�aðwÞ:
The same proof as in Corollary 2.3 shows that
kPH?a,memk2 ¼
�ðmþ nþ 1þ �Þm!
�ðnþ 1þ �ÞK�ða, aÞ
j�j2
ð1� jaj2Þ2
� �m
:
Then by (3) and (6),
fðBm@vÞðaÞg2 ¼ K�ða, aÞ�1kPH?a,memk
2
¼�ðmþ nþ 1þ �Þm!
�ðnþ 1þ �Þ
j�j2
ð1� jaj2Þ2
� �m
¼�ðmþ nþ 1þ �Þm!
�ðnþ 1þ �Þðnþ 1þ �ÞmfðB1@vÞðaÞg
2m,
as desired. g
Remark 2.5 When �¼ 0 in Theorem 2.4, (15) will be recovered simply, while it was
proved differently by using the transformation formula (10) and establishing the
iteration formula (24) of certain vector fields at the origin (see Section 4).
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3. A uniform approach
The objective of this section is to develop an approach which will deal with (Bm@v)(a)on balls of any radius and C
n uniformly.For 05r51 and �4�1, we denote Br¼ {z2C
n : jzj5r} and d��,rðzÞ ¼c�,rð1�
jzj2
r2Þ�d�ðzÞ with c�,r ¼
�ðnþ�þ1Þn!r2n�ð�þ1Þ
, then ��,r(Br)¼ 1, B1¼Bn the open unit
ball and d��,1(z)¼ d��(z) accordingly. It is clear that B1 and Br are biholomorphi-cally equivalent, and any biholomorphic mapping of B1 onto Br is of the form r�where � 2Aut(B1). In particular, for w ¼ ðzÞ ¼ z
r : Br ! B1, it is easy to see that �ð@vÞ ¼ @vr and
��ð ðN ÞÞ ¼
ZN
d��,rðzÞ
for each Borel subset NBr. Consequently, the kernel function of the weightedBergman spaces A2(Br, d��,r) is K�r ðz,wÞ ¼ ð1�
hz,wir2Þ�ðnþ1þ�Þ by (9). It also follows
from the transformation formula (10) and Theorem 2.4 that
ðBm@vÞðBrÞðaÞ ¼ ðBm@vrÞ
ðB1Þ
�a
r
�¼
�ðmþ nþ 1þ �Þm!
�ðnþ 1þ �Þðnþ 1þ �Þm
� �12�ðB1@vrÞ
ðB1Þ
�a
r
��m
¼�ðmþ nþ 1þ �Þm!
�ðnþ 1þ �Þ
� �12�ðr2 � jaj2Þjvj2 þ jha, vij2
ðr2 � jaj2Þ2
�m2
: ð21Þ
LEMMA 3.1 For p40, the functions frðzÞ ¼ f ðz, rÞ ¼ ð1� jzj2
r2Þ�pr2 converge to epjzj
2
uniformly on the compacta of Cn as r!þ1.
Proof Using the limit definition of the natural base e, it is easy to see that
limr!þ1
frðzÞ ¼ epjzj2
for each z. We only need to show that the pointwise convergence is actually uniformon each compact subset M of C
n. For such an M, we can choose R40 such thatMBR. Note that
@
@rf ðz, rÞ ¼ �2pr 1�
jzj2
r2
� ��pr2ln
�1�jzj2
r2
�þ
jzj2
r2
1� jzj2
r2
( ):
For r4R and z2M, we claim that lnð1� jzj2
r2Þ þ
jzj2
r2
1�jzj2
r2
� 0. Let x ¼ jzj2
r2, then 0� x51
and we define gðxÞ ¼ lnð1� xÞ þ x1�x. So g(0)¼ 0 and g 0ðxÞ ¼ x
ð1�xÞ2� 0. Thus g(x)� 0
for 0� x51, which implies that @@r f ðz, rÞ � 0, and the functions fr(z) is decreasing in ras r4R for z2M. So the functions fr(z) are convergent to epjzj
2
uniformly on M asr!þ1 by Dini’s theorem. g
THEOREM 3.2 For fixed p40 and pr20 4 n for some r040, let �¼ pr2� n� 1 forr� r0. Then
limr!þ1
K�r ðz, zÞ ¼ epjzj2
uniformly on the compacta of Cn. Consequently, for H¼H2(Cn, d�p),
ðBm@vÞðC
nÞðaÞ ¼ lim
r!þ1ðBm@vÞ
ðBrÞðaÞ ¼ fm!pmjvj2mg12:
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Proof By our assumption, �¼ pr2� n� 14�1 and K�r ðz, zÞ ¼ ð1�jzj2
r2Þ�pr2 . Then by
Lemma 3.1, we know
limr!þ1
K�r ðz, zÞ ¼ epjzj2
ð22Þ
uniformly on the compacta of Cn.
On the other hand, by (11) we know that (Bm@v)(Br)(a) is a closed expression of
fhej, eii ¼ ð@iv�@ jvK
�r Þða, aÞg
mi, j¼0:
So the interchange of taking limit and differentiation is assured by (22) so that
limr!1ðBm@vÞ
ðBrÞðaÞ ¼ ðBm@vÞðC
nÞðaÞ
for some holomorphic Hilbert spaceH on Cn with kernel function K(p)(z, z)¼ epjzj
2
onthe diagonal of C
n�C
n. Since the function K(p)(z,w)¼ ephz,wi, as the kernel functionofH2(Cn, d�p), is uniquely determined by K(p)(z, z)¼ epjzj
2
by the standard uniquenesstheorem, and there is a bijective correspondence between Hilbert function spaces onCn and reproducing kernels on C
n [1, p. 19], we know that H must be represented byH2(Cn, d�p). Finally, with (21), it is easy to see that
ðBm@vÞðC
nÞðaÞ ¼ lim
r!1ðBm@vÞ
ðBrÞðaÞ
¼ limr!1
�ðmþ pr2Þm!
�ð pr2Þ
� �12 ðr2 � jaj2Þjvj2 þ jha, vij2
ðr2 � jaj2Þ2
� �m2
¼ fm!pmjvj2mg12,
where the last equality follows from Stirling’s formula. g
4. Revisiting to an iteration formula
For �¼Bn and w¼ a(z)2Aut(Bn) of the form (18), we define gðwÞ ¼ ð aÞ�ðvÞ ¼
0aðzÞv ¼ ð g1ðwÞ, . . . , gnðwÞÞ, then gð0Þ ¼ 0aðaÞv and [3, Lemma 3.7]
j gð0Þj ¼ðB1@vÞðaÞffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi
nþ 1p , ð23Þ
where (B1@v)(a) is the classical Bergman metric associated with the (unweighted)Bergman space A2(Bn, d�). Moreover, let @mg stand for the operator f
Pnj¼1 gj ðwÞ@wj
gm
and @mgð0Þ ¼ @m 0aðaÞv
for the operator fPn
j¼1 gj ð0Þ@wjgm. Let X be a Banach space and
C1(Bn,X) be the set of smooth mappings from Bn into X possessing strong
derivatives of all orders (see e.g. [11]). An iteration formula for the action of @mg onC1(Bn,X) at w¼ 0 has been established in [3] as follows: for f2C1(Bn,X)and m� 1,
ð@mg f ÞðwÞjw¼0 ¼Xmj¼1
CðmÞj hða, vÞm�jð@ j
gð0Þ f ÞðwÞjw¼0, ð24Þ
where h(a, v)¼ (1� jaj2)�1hv, ai, and CðmÞj ’s are constants depending on m and j
with CðmÞm ¼ 1.
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Moreover, a careful examination of the proof of (24) in [3] indicates that CðmÞj ’s
are determined by the recurrence relation
CðmÞj ¼ C
ðm�1Þj�1 þ 2jC
ðm�1Þj þ j ð jþ 1ÞC
ðm�1Þjþ1 , 1 � j � m, ð25Þ
where CðmÞm ¼ 1 for m� 1. We denote Cð0Þ0 ¼ 1 and C
ðmÞ0 ¼ 0 for m40, C
ðmÞj ¼ 0 for
j4m or j50. Actually, we can determine these coefficients explicitly.
PROPOSITION 4.1 For m� 1 and 1� j�m,
CðmÞj ¼
ðm� 1Þ!m!
ð j� 1Þ!j!ðm� j Þ!: ð26Þ
Proof We proceed by induction on m and j. It is clear that for m¼ 1 and j¼ 1,
Cð1Þ1 ¼ 1. So (26) holds. Now we assume that (26) is true for some m¼ k� 1 and for
all 1� j� k. Then for m¼ kþ 1 and j¼ 1, by (25) and our hypotheses for m¼ k,
we have
Cðkþ1Þ1 ¼ C
ðkÞ0 þ 2C
ðkÞ1 þ 2C
ðkÞ2 ¼ 2C
ðkÞ1 þ 2C
ðkÞ2 ¼ 2k!þ ðk� 1Þk! ¼ ðkþ 1Þ!,
which shows that (26) is true for m¼ kþ 1 and j¼ 1.Now for m¼ kþ 1 and 2� j� kþ 1, by (25) and our hypotheses for m¼ k again,
we have
Cðkþ1Þj ¼ C
ðkÞj�1þ 2jC
ðkÞj þ j ð jþ 1ÞC
ðkÞjþ1
¼ðk� 1Þ!k!
ð j� 2Þ!ð j� 1Þ!ðkþ 1� j Þ!þ 2j
ðk� 1Þ!k!
ð j� 1Þ!j!ðk� j Þ!þ j ð jþ 1Þ
ðk� 1Þ!k!
j!ð jþ 1Þ!ðk� 1� j Þ!
¼ðk� 1Þ!k!
ð j� 1Þ!j!ðkþ 1� j Þ!fð j� 1Þ jþ 2j ðkþ 1� j Þ þ ðk� j Þðkþ 1� j Þg
¼ðk� 1Þ!k!
ð j� 1Þ!j!ðkþ 1� j Þ!fkðkþ 1Þg
¼k!ðkþ 1Þ!
ð j� 1Þ!j!ðkþ 1� j Þ!,
which shows that (26) is also true for m¼ kþ 1 and 2� j� kþ 1. Therefore, we can
conclude that (26) holds for all m� 1 and 1� j�m. g
5. Connections to higher order Schwarz–Pick lemma
Most recently, a higher order Schwarz-Pick lemma formulated in terms of the
classical Bergman metric has been proved in [15] for the Frechet derivative of
f¼ ( f1, . . . , fk)2H(Bn,Bk) the class of holomorphic mappings from Bn into B
k (even
in the setting of complex Hilbert balls [19]). For v2Cn\{0}, we observe that the
Frechet derivative Dm( f, a, v) of f at point a2Bn of order m defined in [15] can be
expressed in our notations as
Dmð f, a, vÞ ¼ ð@mv f ÞðaÞ ¼ ðð@
mv f1ÞðaÞ, . . . , ð@mv fkÞðaÞÞ 2C
k,
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and the higher order Schwarz–Pick lemma in [15] can be rewritten as
ðB1@ð@mv f ÞðaÞÞð f ðaÞÞ � m!1ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffinþ 1p 1þ
jha, vij
j�j
� �� �m�1
ðB1@vÞðaÞ� m
: ð27Þ
Note that the Bergman metric used in (27) differs from the one used in [15] by a
factorffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffinþ 1p
. One immediate consequence of (27) combining with (17) (�¼ 0) isthat for a2B
n and v2Cn,
supf2HðBn,BkÞ
jð@mv f ÞðaÞj �m!
ðnþ 1Þm2
1þjha, vij
j�j
� �m�1
ðB1@vÞðaÞ� m
: ð28Þ
We notice that (28) has the same flavour as (19) in Corollary 2.3, and believe that
there might have been certain connection between our study of higher order‘intrinsic’ metrics in Berezin’s operator calculus and the higher order Schwarz–Pick
lemma (27). Actually, our belief will be enhanced by the fact that we are able torecover (28) with less sharp constant factor based on our analysis in Berezin’s
operator calculus.First of all, motivated by (28) and the definition of the mth order Bergman
metric, it would be interesting to consider another mapping DðkÞm defined on the space
of holomorphic vector fields by
ðDðkÞm V ÞðaÞ ¼ supf2Hð�,BkÞ
jðVmf ÞðaÞj ¼ supf2Hð�,BkÞ
Xkj¼1
jðVmfj ÞðaÞj2
( )12
,
where � is a bounded domain, V is a holomorphic vector field on � and H(�, Bk) is
the class of holomorphic mappings from � into Bk. It is also easy to prove that
ðDðkÞm V Þð�1ÞðzÞ ¼ ðDðkÞm �ðV ÞÞð�2Þð ðzÞÞ ð29Þ
for :�1!�2 a biholomorphic mapping. We write ðDð1Þm V ÞðaÞ ¼ ðDmV ÞðaÞ. It turnsout that the definition of ðDðkÞm V ÞðaÞ is independent of k.
PROPOSITION 5.1 For any k� 1,
ðDðkÞm V ÞðaÞ ¼ ðDmV ÞðaÞ:
Proof For f2H(�, B1), we define f ¼ ð f, 0, . . . , 0Þ 2Hð�,Bk
Þ. Then
jðVmf ÞðaÞj ¼ jðVmf ÞðaÞj
for any holomorphic vector field V. It follows that ðDmV ÞðaÞ � ðDðkÞm V ÞðaÞ. For the
opposite inequality, we observe that for f2H(�, Bk),
jðVmf ÞðaÞj ¼ supfjhðVmf ÞðaÞ, ij : 2Ck, jj ¼ 1g
¼ sup
�����Xkj¼1
�j ðVmfj ÞðaÞ
���� : 2Ck, jj ¼ 1
�
¼ sup
�����ðVmXkj¼1
�j fj ÞðaÞ
���� : 2Ck, jj ¼ 1
�� supfjðVmhÞðaÞj : h2Hð�,B1
Þg
¼ ðDmV ÞðaÞ:
The proof is completed. g
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Recall that for the rank one self-adjoint operator A(z) in (14), the mapping Lm
defined on the space of holomorphic vector fields by
ðLmV ÞðaÞ ¼ kðVmAÞðaÞktr
was introduced in [3].
PROPOSITION 5.2 On any bounded domain �,
ðDmV ÞðaÞ � ðLmV ÞðaÞ:
Proof From the definition (13) of the Berezin transform, we know that for
X2Op(A2(�)),
jðVmeX ÞðaÞj ¼ jtr½XðVmAÞðaÞ�j � kXkkðVmAÞðaÞktr: ð30Þ
If we take X¼Mf the multiplication operator on the Bergman space A2(�) with the
bounded symbol f2H(�,B1) in (30), it is easy to check that eMf ¼ f and
kMfk¼k f k1� 1. Our assertion follows easily. g
In our terminology, (28) is the same as the statement that on the unit ball Bn,
ðDðkÞm @vÞðaÞ ¼ ðDm@vÞðaÞ �m!
ðnþ 1Þm2
1þjha, vij
j�j
� �m�1
ðB1@vÞðaÞ� m
, ð31Þ
which can be recovered with less sharp constant factor as follows:
PROPOSITION 5.3 For X2Op(A2(Bn)),
jð@mveX ÞðaÞj � kXk mþ n
n
� �12 m!
ðnþ 1Þm2
1þjha, vij
j�j
� �m�1
ðB1@vÞðaÞ� m
: ð32Þ
Consequently,
ðDm@vÞðaÞ �mþ n
n
� �12 m!
ðnþ 1Þm2
1þjha, vij
j�j
� �m�1
ðB1@vÞðaÞ� m
: ð33Þ
Proof It was obtained by the formula (24) in section 4.1 of [3] that on the unit ball,
ðLm@vÞðaÞ ¼Xmj¼1
jCðmÞj j
2 j!ð jþ nÞ!
n!jhða, vÞj2ðm�j Þj gð0Þj2j
( )12
¼ðm� 1Þ!m!fðB1@vÞðaÞg
mffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffin!ðnþ 1Þm
p Xmj¼1
ð jþ nÞ!
½ð j� 1Þ!�2j!½ðm� j Þ!�2jha, vij
j�j
� �2ðm�j Þ( )1
2
,
where (23) and (26) are used in the last equality. Thus,
fðLm@vÞðaÞg �m!fðB1@vÞðaÞg
mffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiðnþ 1Þm
p Xmj¼1
nþ j
n
� �12 m� 1
j� 1
� �jha, vij
j�j
� �m�j
�mþ n
n
� �12 m!
ðnþ 1Þm2
1þjha, vij
j�j
� �m�1
ðB1@vÞðaÞ� m
:
Now (32) follows easily from (30) by taking V¼ @v, and (33) is from
Proposition 5.2. g
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6. mth order Caratheodory–Reiffen metric
In this section, we would like to derive an identity similar to (20) on the unit ball Bn
between the mth order Caratheodory-Reiffen metric and the classical infinitesimal
Caratheodory-Reiffen metric.For a bounded domain �, we replace the Hilbert space H by H(�,D) the class of
holomorphic functions f on � with values in the unit disc D, and the Hilbert space
norm by the supremum norm k�k1 in (1), and denote
TmðV, aÞ ¼ f f2Hð�,DÞ : ðVjf ÞðaÞ ¼ 0, j ¼ 0, 1, . . . ,m� 1g
and define a mapping on the space of holomorphic vector fields by
ðCmV ÞðaÞ ¼ supf2TmðV,aÞ
jðVmf ÞðaÞj:
Then it is clear that (CmV )(a)� (DmV )(a) and (C1V )(a)¼ (D1V )(a) on any bounded
domain. It is also easy to show that Cm satisfies the transformation formula
ðCmV Þð�1ÞðzÞ ¼ ðCm �ðV ÞÞ
ð�2Þð ðzÞÞ, ð34Þ
where :�1!�2 is biholomorphic and �(V ) is the push-forward of the vector
field V under . If the vector field V¼ @v for v2Cn\{0}, (Cm@v)(a) is exactly the mth
order Caratheodory-Reiffen metric introduced by Burbea in [5], and (C1@v)(a) is justthe classical infinitesimal Caratheodory-Reiffen metric [17].
LEMMA 6.1 For e1¼ (1, 0, . . . , 0)2Cn and m� 1,
ðCm@e1Þð0Þ ¼ ðDm@e1 Þð0Þ ¼ m!
on the unit ball Bn.
Proof It is clear that (Cm@e1)(0)� (Dm@e1)(0) by their definitions. For f ðzÞ ¼ zm1 , it is
easy to check that f2Tm(@e1, 0) and ð@me1 f Þð0Þ ¼ m!. So m!� (Cm@e1)(0), while
(Dm@e1)(0)�m! by (31). g
THEOREM 6.2 On the unit ball Bn,
ðCm@vÞðaÞ ¼ m!fðC1@vÞðaÞgm:
Proof Based on (24), the same argument as in the proof of Proposition 3.13 of [3]
yields that
ðCm@gÞð0Þ ¼ ðCm@gð0ÞÞð0Þ: ð35Þ
By (34) and (35), we have
ðCm@vÞðaÞ ¼ ðCm@gÞð0Þ ¼ ðCm@gð0ÞÞð0Þ: ð36Þ
We choose a unitary transformation U such that Uð gð0Þj gð0ÞjÞ ¼ e1, where e1¼
(1, 0, . . . , 0), then by (34) again,
ðCm@gð0ÞÞð0Þ ¼ j gð0Þjm�Cm@ gð0Þ
j gð0Þj
�ð0Þ ¼ j gð0Þjm
�Cm@Uð gð0Þ
j gð0ÞjÞ
�ð0Þ ¼ j gð0ÞjmðCm@e1Þð0Þ:
ð37Þ
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Since j gð0Þj ¼ j 0aðaÞvj ¼ ðC1@vÞðaÞ, (36), (37) and Lemma 6.1 imply that
ðCm@vÞðaÞ ¼ j gð0ÞjmðCm@e1Þð0Þ ¼ m!fðC1@vÞðaÞg
m:
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Remark 6.3 We remark that (31) could be recovered exactly by an alternativeargument involving Lemma 6.1 in which a particular case of (31) has been used. Thatis, by (29) and (24),
ðDm@vÞðaÞ ¼ ðDm@gÞð0Þ �Xmj¼1
CðmÞj jhða, vÞj
m�jðDj@gð0ÞÞð0Þ
¼Xmj¼1
CðmÞj jhða, vÞj
m�jj gð0Þj j ðDj@e1Þð0Þ
¼m!fðB1@vÞðaÞg
mffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiðnþ 1Þm
p Xmj¼1
m� 1
j� 1
� �jha, vij
j�j
� �m�j
,
which is exactly (31) after reindexing.
Remark 6.4 Combining the results in [3,5] and this note, we see that
ðCm@vÞðaÞ � ðBm@vÞðaÞ, ðDm@vÞðaÞ � ðLm@vÞðaÞ
on any bounded domain, and they are equivalent to each other and comparable to{(B1@v)(a)}
m on the unit ball. We conjecture that they are also equivalent on anybounded symmetric domain in C
n.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Prof Jingbo Xia for suggesting the essential idea of the new proof inSection 2, and they are also grateful to Dr Trieu Le for insightful discussions in the finding ofthe formula in Proposition 4.1.
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