Composition operators and embedding theorems for some function spaces of Dirichlet series

Abstract

We observe that local embedding problems for certain Hardy and Bergman spaces of Dirichlet series are equivalent to boundedness of a class of composition operators. Following this, we perform a careful study of such composition operators generated by polynomial symbols \varphi on a scale of Bergman-type Hilbert spaces \mathscr {D}_\alpha. We investigate the optimal \beta such that the composition operator \mathscr {C}_\varphi maps \mathscr {D}_\alpha boundedly into \mathscr {D}_\beta. We also prove a new embedding theorem for the non-Hilbertian Hardy space \mathscr {H}^p into a Bergman space in the half-plane and use it to consider composition operators generated by polynomial symbols on \mathscr {H}^p, finding the first non-trivial results of this type. The embedding also yields a new result for the functional associated to the multiplicative Hilbert matrix.