We show that the composition hyperbolic group in the unit disc, once transferred to act on sequence spaces, is bounded on $$\ell^p$$
ℓ
p
if and only if $${p=2}$$
p
=
2
. We introduce some integral operators subordinated to that group which are natural generalizations of classical operators on sequences. For the description of such operators, we use some combinatorial identities which look interesting in their own.