Composition operators induced by smooth self-maps of the real or complex unit balls

In this paper, we study the composition operator CΦ with a smooth but not necessarily holomorphic symbol Φ. A necessary and sufficient condition on Φ for CΦ to be bounded on holomorphic (respectively harmonic) weighted Bergman spaces of the unit ball in Cn (respectively Rn) is given. The condition is a real version of Wogen’s condition for the holomorphic spaces, and a non-vanishing boundary Jacobian condition for the harmonic spaces. We also show certain jump phenomena on the weights for the target spaces for both the holomorphic and harmonic spaces. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved