A note on composition operators on the bidisc

Abstract

In this note we give a new sufficient condition for the boundedness of the composition operator on the Dirichlet-type space on the disc, via a two dimensional change of variables formula. With the same formula, we characterise the bounded composition operators on the anisotropic Dirichlet-type spaces $\mathfrak{D}_{\vec{a}}(\mathbb{D}^2)$ induced by holomorphic self maps of the bidisc $\mathbb{D}^2$ of the form $\Phi(z_1,z_2)=(\phi_1(z_1),\phi_2(z_2))$. We also consider the problem of boundedness of composition operators $C_{\Phi}:\mathfrak{D}(\mathbb{D}^2)\to A^2(\mathbb{D}^2)$ for general self maps of the bidisc, applying some recent results about Carleson measures on the the Dirichlet space of the bidisc.