Some examples of composition operators and their approximation numbers on the Hardy space of the bi-disk

Abstract

We give examples of composition operators $C\_\Phi$ on $H^2 (\D^2)$ showing that the condition $\|\Phi \|\_\infty = 1$ is not sufficient for their approximation numbers $a\_n (C\_\Phi)$ to satisfy $\lim\_{n \to \infty} [a\_n (C\_\Phi) ]^{1/\sqrt{n}} = 1$, contrary to the $1$-dimensional case. We also give a situation where this implication holds. We make a link with the Monge-Amp\`ere capacity of the image of $\Phi$.