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Abstract

We study the order boundedness of composition operators induced by holomorphic self-maps of the open unit disc D. We consider these operators first on the Hardy spaces $H^p$ 0 < p < ∞ and then on the Nevanlinna class N. Given a non-negative increasing function h on [0,∞[, a composition operator is said to be X,L_h-order bounded (we write (X,L_h)-ob) with $X = H^p$ or X = N if its composition with the map f ↦ f*, where f* denotes the radial limit of f, is order bounded from X into $L_h$. We give a complete characterization and a family of examples in both cases. On the other hand, we show that the ($N,log^{+}L$)-ob composition operators are exactly those which are Hilbert-Schmidt on $H^2$. We also prove that the ($N,L^q$)-ob composition operators are exactly those which are compact from N into $H^q$.