Embedding and compact embedding between Bergman and Hardy spaces

Abstract

For Hardy spaces and weighted Bergman spaces on the open unit ball in ${\mathbb C}^n$, we determine exactly when $A^p_\alpha\subset H^q$ or $H^p\subset A^q_\alpha$, where $0<q<\infty$, $0<p<\infty$, and $-\infty<\alpha<\infty$. For each such inclusion we also determine exactly when it is a compact embedding. Although some special cases were known before, we are able to completely cover all possible cases here. We also introduce a new notion called {\it tight fitting} and formulate a conjecture in terms of it, which places several prominent known results about contractive embeddings in the same framework.