In this paper, the authors study the integral operator \({S_\phi }f(z) = \int_{\mathbb{C}} \phi (z,\overline w )f(w){\rm{d}}{\lambda _\alpha }(w)\)
induced by a kernel function ϕ(z,·) ∈ F α ∞ between Fock spaces. For 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞, they prove that Sϕ: F α 1 → F α p is bounded if and only if \(\mathop {\sup }\limits_{a \in \mathbb{C}} ||{S_\phi }{k_a}|{|_{p,\alpha }} < \infty ,\)
where ka is the normalized reproducing kernel of F α 2 ; and, Sϕ: F α 1 → F α p is compact if and only if \(\mathop {lim}\limits_{|a| \to \infty } ||{S_\phi }{k_a}|{|_{p,\alpha }} = 0.\)
When 1 < q ≤ ∞, it is also proved that the condition (†) is not sufficient for boundedness of Sϕ: F α q → F α p .
In the particular case \(\phi (z,\overline w ) = {e^{\alpha z\overline w }}\varphi (z - \overline w )\) with φ ∈ F α 2 , for 1 ≤ q < p < ∞, they show that Sϕ: F α p → F α q is bounded if and only if φ = 0; for 1 < p ≤ q < ∞, they give sufficient conditions for the boundedness or compactness of the operator Sϕ: F α p → F α q .