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A VOLTERRA TYPE OPERATOR ON SPACES OF ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS ARISTOMENIS G. SISKAKIS AND RUHAN ZHAO Abstract. The main results are conditions on g such that the Volterra type operator Jg(f)(z) = ∫ z 0 f(ζ)g′(ζ) dζ, is bounded or compact on BMOA. We also point out certain information when Jg is considered as an operator on a general space X of analytic functions on the disc. 1. Introduction Let D denote the unit disc in the complex plane C. For g analytic on the disc consider the linear transformation Jg(f)(z) = ∫ z 0 f(ζ)g′(ζ) dζ, acting on functions f analytic on D. These operators arise naturally, with symbols g of a certain special form, in the study of semigroups of composition operators on spaces of analytic functions, see [Si, page 240] for details. When g(z) = z or g(z) = log(1/(1 ? z)), Jg is the integration operator or the Cesa?ro operator respectively. It has been shown in [AleSi1] that Jg is a bounded (compact) operator on the Hardy spaces Hp, 1 ≤ p ∞, if and only if g ∈ BMOA (g ∈ VMOA), the space of analytic functions whose boundary values have bounded (vanishing) mean oscil- lation, and further ‖Jg‖ ～ ‖g‖BMOA. Analogous results on some general weighted Bergman spaces were shown in [AleSi2] with the Bloch and little Bloch space replac- ing BMOA and VMOA in the characterization of boundedness and compactness. Because of the connection with composition semigroups, these results can be ap- plied to obtain properties of the resolvent operators of such semigroups. Composition semigroups can be studied on other spaces of analytic functions and this leads to questions about the operator Jg on such spaces. The general problem may be stated as follows. Given a space X = (X, ‖ ‖) describe those symbols g for which Jg is bounded or compact or has some other operator theoretic property as an operator on X. This article consists of two parts. In the first part we describe some facts for Jg acting on a general Banach or Hilbert space of analytic functions. In the second