Let $\mu $ be a finite positive Borel measure on $[0,1)$ and $f(z)=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }a_{n}z^{n} \in H(\mathbb {D})$. For $0<\alpha <\infty $, the generalized Cesàro-like operator $\mathcal {C}_{\mu ,\alpha }$ is defined by

$$ \begin{align*}\mathcal {C}_{\mu,\alpha}(f)(z)=\sum^\infty_{n=0}\left(\mu_n\sum^n_{k=0}\frac{\Gamma(n-k+\alpha)}{\Gamma(\alpha)(n-k)!}a_k\right)z^n, \ z\in \mathbb{D}, \end{align*} $$

where, for $n\geq 0$, $\mu _n$ denotes the nth moment of the measure $\mu $, that is, $\mu _n=\int _{0}^{1} t^{n}d\mu (t)$.

For $s>1$, let X be a Banach subspace of $H(\mathbb {D})$ with $\Lambda ^{s}_{\frac {1}{s}}\subset X\subset \mathcal {B}$. In this article, for $1\leq p <\infty $, we characterize the measure $\mu $ for which $\mathcal {C}_{\mu ,\alpha }$ is bounded (resp. compact) from X into the analytic Besov space $B_{p}$.

We investigate the isomorphic structure of the Cesàro spaces and their duals, the Tandori spaces. The main result states that the Cesàro function space $\text{Ces}_{\infty }$ and its sequence counterpart $\text{ces}_{\infty }$ are isomorphic. This is rather surprising since $\text{Ces}_{\infty }$ (like Talagrand’s example) has no natural lattice predual. We prove that $\text{ces}_{\infty }$ is not isomorphic to $\ell _{\infty }$ nor is $\text{Ces}_{\infty }$ isomorphic to the Tandori space $\widetilde{L_{1}}$ with the norm $\Vert f\Vert _{\widetilde{L_{1}}}=\Vert \widetilde{f}\Vert _{L_{1}}$, where $\widetilde{f}(t):=\text{ess}\,\sup _{s\geqslant t}|f(s)|$. Our investigation also involves an examination of the Schur and Dunford–Pettis properties of Cesàro and Tandori spaces. In particular, using results of Bourgain we show that a wide class of Cesàro–Marcinkiewicz and Cesàro–Lorentz spaces have the latter property.

An investigation is made of the continuity, the compactness and the spectrum of the Cesàro operator $\mathsf{C}$ when acting on the weighted Banach sequence spaces $\ell _{p}(w)$, $1<p<\infty$, for a positive decreasing weight $w$, thereby extending known results for $\mathsf{C}$ when acting on the classical spaces $\ell _{p}$. New features arise in the weighted setting (for example, existence of eigenvalues, compactness) which are not present in $\ell _{p}$.

For α ∈ [0, 1] the operator is the operator formally defined on the Hardy space H2 by

If α = 1, then the usual identification of H2 with l2 takes A 1 onto the discrete Cesàro operator. Here we see that {A α : α ∈ [0, 1]} is not arcwise connected, that Re A α ≥ 0, that A α is a Hilbert-Schmidt operator if α ∈[0, 1), and that A α is neither normaloid nor spectraloid if α ∈(0, 1).