COMPOSITION OPERATORS OF CLASS Q

S. Panayappan (India), D. Senthilkumar (India) and K. Thirugnanasambandam (India)

Received June 12, 2007; Revised August 8, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: composition operators, paranormal operators, class Q operators.