Operators on harmonic Bergman spaces

We study the commutator of the multiplication and harmonic Bergman projection, Hankel and Toeplitz operators on the harmonic Bergman spaces. The same type operators have been well studied on the analytic Bergman spaces. The main difficulty of this study is that the bounded harmonic function space is not an algebra! In this paper, we characterize theL ^p boundedness and compactness of these operators with harmonic symbols. Results about operators in Schatten classes, the cut-off phenomenon and general symbols are also included.Partially supported by a grant from the Research Grants Committee of the University of Alabama.     

Properties of generalized Toeplitz operators

An operatorX: is said to be a generalized Toeplitz operator with respect to given contractionsT ₁ andT ₂ ifX=T ₂XT₁ ^*. The purpose of this line of research, started by Douglas, Sz.-Nagy and Foia, and Pták and Vrbová, is to study which properties of classical Toeplitz operators depend on their characteristic relation. Following this spirit, we give appropriate extensions of a number of results about Toeplitz operators. Namely, Wintner's theorem of invertibility of analytic Toeplitz operators, Widom and Devinatz's invertibility criteria for Toeplitz operators with unitary symbols, Hartman and Wintner's theorem about Toeplitz operator having a Fredholm symbol, Hartman and Wintner's estimate of the norm of a compactly perturbed Toeplitz operator, and the non-existence of compact classical Toeplitz operators due to Brown and Halmos.Dedicated to our friend Cora Sadosky on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday     

单位多圆柱上Bergman空间中的分别准齐次ToePlitz算子

本文研究了单位多圆柱上Bergman空间中以分别准齐次函数为记号的Toeplitz算子的代数性质.我们首先得到了两个以分别准齐次函数为记号的Toeplitz算子可以写成一个Toeplitz算子的充分必要条件,然后利用L2(Dn,dV)的一个极分解式证明了,只要其中有一个Toeplitz算子是分别准齐次的,则其零乘积问题...     

Toeplitz operators on the Fock space: Radial component effects

The paper is devoted to the study of specific properties of Toeplitz operators with (unbounded, in general) radial symbolsa=a(r). Boundedness and compactness conditions, as well as examples, are given. It turns out that there exist non-zero symbols which generate zero Toeplitz operators. We characterize such symbols, as well as the class of symbols for whichT _a =0 impliesa(r)=0 a.e. For each compact setM there exists a Toeplitz operatorT _a such that spT _a =ess-spT _a =M. We show that the set of symbols which generate bounded Toeplitz operators no longer forms an algebra under pointwise multiplication.Besides the algebra of Toeplitz operators we consider the algebra of Weyl pseudodifferential operators obtained from Toeplitz ones by means of the Bargmann transform. Rewriting our Toeplitz and Weyl pseudodifferential operators in terms of the Wick symbols we come to their spectral decompositions.This work was partially supported by CONACYT Project 27934-E, México.The first author acknowledges the RFFI Grant 98-01-01023, Russia.     

Non-vanishing functions and Toeplitz operators on tube-type domains

We prove an index theorem for Toeplitz operators on irreducible tube-type domains and we extend our results to Toeplitz operators with matrix symbols. In order to prove our index theorem, we proved a result asserting that a non-vanishing function on the Shilov boundary of a tube-type bounded symmetric domain, not necessarily irreducible, is equal to a unimodular function defined as the product of powers of generic norms times an exponential function.     

Some continuous index theorems

In this paper we give criteria of Fredholmness and index theorems for Toeplitz operators whose symbols take values in a W^*-algebra factor of type II₁.     

Unbounded Toeplitz Operators

This partly expository article develops the basic theory of unbounded Toeplitz operators on the Hardy space H ², with emphasis on operators whose symbols are not square integrable. Unbounded truncated Toeplitz operators on coinvariant subspaces of H ² are also studied. In memory of Paul R. Halmos     

Toeplitz operators hyponormal with the unilateral shift

For the unilateral shift operator U on the Hardy space H²(T), we describe conditions on operators T, acting on H²(T), that are necessary and sufficient for the pair (U, T) to be jointly hyponormal. One necessary condition is that T be a Toeplitz operator. Consequently, we study certain nonanalytic symbols that give rise to Toeplitz operators hyponormal with the shift, and thereby obtain examples of noncommuting, jointly hyponormal pairs.Supported in part by a research grant from NSERC     

Commutative Toeplitz Banach Algebras on the Ball and Quasi-Nilpotent Group Action

Studying commutative C*-algebras generated by Toeplitz operators on the unit ball it was proved that, given a maximal commutative subgroup of biholomorphisms of the unit ball, the C*-algebra generated by Toeplitz operators, whose symbols are invariant under the action of this subgroup, is commutative on each standard weighted Bergman space. There are five different pairwise non-conjugate model classes of such subgroups: quasi-elliptic, quasi-parabolic, quasi-hyperbolic, nilpotent and quasi-nilpotent. Recently it was observed in Vasilevski (Integr Equ Oper Theory. 66:141–152, 2010) that there are many other, not geometrically defined, classes of symbols which generate commutative Toeplitz operator algebras on each weighted Bergman space. These classes of symbols were subordinated to the quasi-elliptic group, the corresponding commutative operator algebras were Banach, and being extended to C*-algebras they became non-commutative. These results were extended then to the classes of symbols, subordinated to the quasi-hyperbolic and quasi-parabolic groups. In this paper we prove the analogous commutativity result for Toeplitz operators whose symbols are subordinated to the quasi-nilpotent group. At the same time we conjecture that apart from the known C*-algebra cases there are no more new Banach algebras generated by Toeplitz operators whose symbols are subordinated to the nilpotent group and which are commutative on each weighted Bergman space.     

Toeplitz operators on harmonic Bergman spaces

We study Toeplitz operators on the harmonic Bergman spaceb ^p (B), whereB is the open unit ball inR ⁿ(n2), for 1<p. We give characterizations for the Toeplitz operators with positive symbols to be bounded, compact, and in Schatten classes. We also obtain a compactness criteria for the Toeplitz operators with continuous symbols.     

Algebraic properties of dual Toeplitz operators on the orthogonal complement of the Dirichlet space

In this paper we investigate some algebra properties of dual Toeplitz operators on the orthogonal complement of the Dirichlet space in the Sobolev space. We completely characterize commuting dual Toeplitz operators with harmonic symbols, and show that a dual Toeplitz operator commutes with a nonconstant analytic dual Toeplitz operator if and only if its symbol is analytic. We also obtain the sufficient and necessary conditions on the harmonic symbols for SφSφψ= Sφψ.     

Maximal Abelian von Neumann Algebras and Toeplitz Operators with Separately Radial Symbols

This paper mainly concerns abelian von Neumann algebras generated by Toeplitz operators on weighted Bergman spaces. Recently a family of abelian w^*-closed Toeplitz algebras has been obtained (see [5,6,7,8]). We show that this algebra is maximal abelian and is singly generated by a Toeplitz operator with a “common” symbol. A characterization for Toeplitz operators with radial symbols is obtained and generalized to the high dimensional case. We give several examples for abelian von Neumann algebras in the case of high dimensional weighted Bergman spaces, which are different from the one dimensional case.     

Toeplitz Operators on the Fock Space

We study Toeplitz operators on the Fock space with positive measures as symbols. Main results include characterizations of Fock–Carleson measures, bounded Toeplitz operators, compact Toeplitz operators, and Toeplitz operators in the Schatten p-classes.     

Toeplitz and Wiener-Hopf determinants with piecewise continuous symbols

The asymptotics for determinants of Toeplitz and Wiener-Hopf operators with piecewise continuous symbols are obtained in this paper. If W_α(σ) is the Wiener-Hopf operator defined on L₂(0, α) with piecewise continuous symbol σ having a finite number of discontinuities at ξ_r, then under appropriate conditions it is shown that det W_α(σ) ˜ G(σ)^α α^Σλ_r2K(σ), where

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is a completely determined constant. An analogous result is obtained for Toeplitz operators. The main point of the paper is to obtain a result in the Wiener-Hopf case since the Toeplitz case had been treated earlier. In the Toeplitz case it was discovered that one could obtain asymptotics fairly easily for symbols with several singularities if, for each singularity one could find a single example of a symbol with a singularity of that kind whose associated asymptotics were known. Fortunately in the Toeplitz case such asymptotics were known. The difficulty in the Wiener-Hopf case is that there was not a single singular case where the determinant was explicitly known. This problem was overcome by using the fact that Wiener-Hopf determinants when discretized become Toeplitz determinants whose entries depend on the size of the matrix. No theorem on Toeplitz matrices can be applied directly but these theorems are modified to obtain the desired results.     

Bergman-Toeplitz operators: Radial component influence

We analyze the influence of the radial component of a symbol to spectral, compactness, and Fredholm properties of Toeplitz operators, acting on the Bergman space. We show that there existcompact Toeplitz operators whose (radial) symbols areunbounded near the unit circle . Studying this question we give several sufficient, and necessary conditions, as well as the corresponding examples. The essential spectra of Toeplitz operators with pure radial symbols have sufficiently rich structure, and even can be massive.TheC ^*-algebras generated by Toeplitz operators with radial symbols are commutative, but the semicommutators[T _a, T_b)=T_a·T_b–T_a·b are not compact in general. Moreover for bounded operatorsT _a andT _b the operatorT _a·b may not be bounded at all.This work was partially supported by CONACYT Project 27934-E, México.The first author acknowledges the RFFI Grant 98-01-01023, Russia.     

The finite sum of finite products of Toeplitz operators on the polydisk

A limit theorem is established for a finite sum of finite products of Toeplitz operators on the Hardy space of the polydisk. As a consequence we show that the product of six Toeplitz operators with pluriharmonic symbols is compact iff the product equals zero iff one of these Toeplitz operators equals zero.     

重调和Hardy空间上的Toeplitz 算子

与调和Bergman 空间相对应, 本文研究重调和Hardy 空间h²(D²) 上的Toeplitz 算子. 本文发现, h²(D²) 上的Toeplitz 算子与经典的Hardy 空间、Bergman 空间及调和Bergman 空间上的Toeplitz算子的性质都有很大的差异. 例如解析Toeplitz 算子可以不是半可换及可交换的. 即使半可换, 其中任何一个符号可以不为常数; 即使可交换, 两个符号的非平凡线性组合也不一定是常数. 本文得到了h²(D²) 上两个解析Toeplitz 算子半可换和可换的充分必要条件.     

Toeplitz Operators with Semi-Almost-Periodic Matrix Symbols on Hardy Spaces

We establish a Fredholm criterion and an index formula for Toeplitz operators with semi-almost-periodic matrix symbols on the Hardy spaces H ^p (1<p<). Our main result completes the Fredholm theory of the aforementioned operators and generalizes previous results, which concerned the case p=2 or were based on certain additional assumptions, such as factorizability, for the almost-periodic representatives of the symbol.     

Positive Toeplitz operators between the pluriharmonic Bergman spaces

We study Toeplitz operators between the pluriharmonic Bergman spaces for positive symbols on the ball. We give characterizations of bounded and compact Toeplitz operators taking a pluriharmonic Bergman space b ^p into another b ^q for 1 < p, q < ∞ in terms of certain Carleson and vanishing Carleson measures. This research was supported by KOSEF (R01-2003-000-10243-0) and Korea University Grant.     

Algebras on the unit disk and Toeplitz operators on the Bergman space

This paper studies algebras of functions on the unit disk generated byH ^∞(D) and bounded harmonic functions. Using these algebras, we characterize compact semicommutators and commutators of Toeplitz operators with harmonic symbols on the Bergman space. Supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the University Research Council of Vanderbilt University.