Weighted composition operators on de Branges-Rovnyak spaces

Abstract: In this paper, we characterize the boundedness and the compactness of weighted composition operators acting on a de Branges-Rovnyak space $\mathcal H(b)$, where the symbol $b$ is a rational function in the unit ball of $H^\infty$ that is not a finite Blaschke product. Our results extend those of [2] by exploiting a close relationship between weighted composition operators on $\mathcal H(b)$ and their counterparts on the Hardy space $H^2$.