Let $B_N$ be the unit ball in $\mathbb{C}^N$ and let $f$ be a function holomorphic and $L^2$-integrable in $B_N$. Denote by $E(B_N,f)$ the set of all slices of the form $\Pi =L\cap B_N$, where $L$ is a complex one-dimensional subspace of $\mathbb{C}^N$, for which $f|_{\Pi}$ is not $L^2$-integrable (with respect to the Lebesgue measure on $L$). Call this set the exceptional set for $f$. We give a characterization of exceptional sets which are closed in the natural topology of slices.

Let $B = B_n$ be the open unit ball of $\bbd C^n$ with volume measure $\nu$, $U = B_1$ and ${\cal B}$ be the Bloch space on $U$. ${\cal A}^{2, \alpha} (B)$, $1 \leq \alpha < \infty$, is defined as the set of holomorphic $f\colon B \rightarrow \bbd C$ for which $$ \int_B \vert f(z) \vert^2 \left( \frac 1{\vert z\vert} \log \frac 1{1 - \vert z\vert } \right)^{-\alpha} \frac {d\nu (z)}{1-\vert z\vert} < \infty $$ if $0 < \alpha <\infty$ and ${\cal A}^{2, 1} (B) = H^2(B)$, the Hardy space. Our objective of this note is to characterize, in terms of the Bergman distance, those holomorphic $f\colon B \rightarrow U$ for which the composition operator $C_f \colon {\cal B} \rightarrow {\cal A}^{2, \alpha}(B)$ defined by $C_f (g) = g\circ f$, $g \in {\cal B}$, is bounded. Our result has a corollary that characterize the set of analytic functions of bounded mean oscillation with respect to the Bergman metric.

A class of Toeplitz type operators acting on the weighted Bergman spaces of the unit ball in the $n$-dimensional complex space is considered and two pluriharmonic symbols of commuting Toeplitz type operators are completely characterized.