“…The case of operators defined on weighted Banach spaces of the type defined above was treated, for example, in [4,5] and [6]. Differences of composition operators have been investigated more recently; see [10,13,14,19] and [20]. In this article we are mainly interested in finding an expression for the essential norm C φ − C ψ e , that is, the distance of C φ − C ψ to the space of compact operators, when C φ − C ψ is a bounded operator from H ∞ v into H ∞ w ; compare with [10] and [12] for the case of H ∞ .…”