The main purpose of this paper is to extend and refine some work of Agler-McCarthy and Amar concerning the Corona problem for the polydisk and the unit ball in $mathbb{C}^n$.
We study a Toeplitz type operator $Q_mu$ between the holomorphic Hardy spaces $H^p$ and $H^q$ of the unit ball. Here the generating symbol $mu$ is assumed to a positive Borel measure. This kind of operator is related to many classical mappings acting on Hardy spaces, such as composition operators, the Volterra type integration operators and Carleson embeddings. We completely characterize the boundedness and compactness of $Q_mu:H^pto H^q$ for the full range $1<p,q<infty$; and also describe the membership in the Schatten classes of $H^2$. In the last section of the paper, we demonstrate the usefulness of $Q_mu$ through applications.
We give in this paper some equivalent definitions of the so called $rho$-Carleson measures when $rho(t)=(log(4/t))^p(loglog(e^4/t))^q$, $0le p,q<infty$. As applications, we characterize the pointwise multipliers on $LMOA(mathbb S^n)$ and from this space to $BMOA(mathbb S^n)$. Boundedness of the Ces`aro type integral operators on $LMOA(mathbb S^n)$ and from $LMOA(mathbb S^n)$ to $BMOA(mathbb S^n)$ is considered as well.
For the weight function $W_mu(x) = (1-|x|^2)^mu$, $mu > -1$, $lambda > 0$ and $b_mu$ a normalizing constant, a family of mutually orthogonal polynomials on the unit ball with respect to the inner product $$ la f,g ra = {b_mu [int_{BB^d} f(x) g(x) W_mu(x) dx + lambda int_{BB^d} abla f(x) cdot abla g(x) W_mu(x) dx]} $$ are constructed in terms of spherical harmonics and a sequence of Sobolev orthog onal polynomials of one variable. The latter ones, hence, the orthogonal polynomials with respect to $la cdot,cdotra$, can be generated through a recursive formula.
On the unit ball B^n we consider the weighted Bergman spaces H_lambda and their Toeplitz operators with bounded symbols. It is known from our previous work that if a closed subgroup H of widetilde{SU(n,1)} has a multiplicity-free restriction for the holomorphic discrete series of $widetilde{SU(n,1)}$, then the family of Toeplitz operators with H-invariant symbols pairwise commute. In this work we consider the case of maximal abelian subgroups of widetilde{SU(n,1)} and provide a detailed proof of the pairwise commutativity of the corresponding Toeplitz operators. To achieve this we explicitly develop the restriction principle for each (conjugacy class of) maximal abelian subgroup and obtain the corresponding Segal-Bargmann transform. In particular, we obtain a multiplicity one result for the restriction of the holomorphic discrete series to all maximal abelian subgroups. We also observe that the Segal-Bargman transform is (up to a unitary transformation) a convolution operator against a function that we write down explicitly for each case. This can be used to obtain the explicit simultaneous diagonalization of Toeplitz operators whose symbols are invariant by one of these maximal abelian subgroups.