On operators commuting with Toeplitz operators modulo the compact operators

We prove that an operator on H² of the disc commutes modulo the compacts with all analytic Toeplitz operators if and only if it is a compact perturbation of a Toeplitz operator with symbol in H^∞ + C. Consequently, the essential commutant of the whole Toeplitz algebra is the algebra of Toeplitz operators with symbol in QC. The image in the Calkin algebra of the Toeplitz operators with symbol in H^∞ + C is a maximal abelian algebra. These results lead to a characterization of automorphisms of the algebra of compact perturbations of the analytic Toeplitz operators.     

Unitary equivalence of one-parameter groups of Toeplitz and composition operators

The composition operators on H² whose symbols are hyperbolic automorphisms of the unit disk fixing ±1 comprise a one-parameter group and the analytic Toeplitz operators coming from covering maps of annuli centered at the origin whose radii are reciprocals also form a one-parameter group. Using the eigenvectors of the composition operators and of the adjoints of the Toeplitz operators, a direct unitary equivalence is found between the restrictions to zH² of the group of Toeplitz operators and the group of adjoints of these composition operators. On the other hand, it is shown that there is not a unitary equivalence of the groups of Toeplitz operators and the adjoints of the composition operators on the whole of H², but there is a similarity between them.     

Some results for operators on a model space

We investigate some problems for truncated Toeplitz operators. Namely, the solvability of the Riccati operator equation on the set of all truncated Toeplitz operators on the model space K _θ = H²ΘθH² is studied. We study in terms of Berezin symbols invertibility of model operators. We also prove some results for the Berezin number of the truncated Toeplitz operators. Moreover, we study some property for H²-functions in terms of noncyclicity of co-analytic Toeplitz operators and hypercyclicity of model operators.     

Density of algebras generated by Toeplitz operators on Bergman spaces

In this paper it is shown that Toeplitz operators on Bergman space form a dense subset of the space of all bounded linear operators, in the strong operator topology, and that their norm closure contains all compact operators. Further, theC ^*-algebra generated by them does not contain all bounded operators, since all Toeplitz operators belong to the essential commutant of certain shift. The result holds in Bergman spacesA ²(Ω) for a wide class of plane domains Ω?C, and in Fock spacesA ²(C ^N),N≧1.     

C1-algebras generated by Hankel operators and Toeplitz operators

Results relating the spectra and essential spectra of Hankel operators to their symbols are obtained by various considerations of the C¹-algebras that they generate. Such considerations exploit the elementary relationships between Hankel operators and Toeplitz operators and established techniques in the theory of Toeplitz operators and their generated C¹-algebras.     

Toeplitz operators on Herglotz wave functions

The space of Herglotz wave functions in R² consists of all the solutions of the Helmholtz equation that can be represented as the Fourier transform in R² of a measure supported in the circle and with density in L²(S¹). This space has a structure of a Hilbert space with reproducing kernel. The purpose of this article is to study Toeplitz operators with nonnegative radial symbols, defined on this space. We study the symbols defining bounded and compact Toeplitz operators as well as the Toeplitz operators belonging to the Schatten classes sp.     

Toeplitz operators on Bergman spaces

Let ? be an element in \(H^\infty (D) + C(\overline D )\) such that ?^* is locally sectorial. In this paper it is shown that the Toeplitz operator defined on the Bergman spaceA ² (D) is Fredholm. Also, it is proved that ifS is an operator onA ²(D) which commutes with the Toeplitz operatorT _? whose symbol ? is a finite Blaschke product, thenS H ^∞ (D) is contained inH ^∞ (D). Moreover, some spectral properties of Toeplitz operators are discussed, and it is shown that the spectrum of a class of Toeplitz operators defined on the Bergman spaceA ² (D), is not connected.     

Bifurcation for variational problems when the linearisation has no eigenvalues

For a bounded analytic function, ?, on the unit disk, $\text{D,}\text{let}\text{T}{}_{\mathrm{?}}\text{and}\text{M}{}_{\mathrm{?}}$ denote the operators of multiplication by ? on H²(?D) and L²(?D), respectively. In their 1973 paper, Deddens and Wong asked whether there is an analytic Toeplitz operator $\text{T}{}_{\mathrm{?}}$ that commutes with a nonzero compact operator, and whether every operator that commutes with an analytic Toeplitz operator has an extension that commutes with the corresponding multiplication operator on L². In the first part of this paper, we give an explicit example of an analytic Toeplitz operator T_φ that settles both of these questions. This operator commutes with a nonzero compact operator (a composition operator followed by an analytic Toeplitz operator). The only operators in the commutant of T_φ that extend to commute with M_φ are analytic Toeplitz operators. Although the commutant of T_φ contains more than just analytic Toeplitz operators, T_φ is irreducible. The remainder of the paper seeks to explain more fully the phenomena incorporated in this example by introducing a class of analytic functions, including the function φ, and giving additional conditions on functions g in the class to determine whether T_g commutes with nonzero compact operators, whether T_g is irreducible, and which operators in the commutant of T_g extend to the commutant of M_g. In particular, we find representations for operators in the commutant and second commutant of T_g.     

On C*-Algebras of Toeplitz Operators on the Harmonic Bergman Space

Commutative algebras of Toeplitz operators acting on the Bergman space on the unit disk have been completely classified in terms of geometric properties of the symbol class. The question when two Toeplitz operators acting on the harmonic Bergman space commute is still open. In some papers, conditions on the symbols have been given in order to have commutativity of two Toeplitz operators. In this paper, we describe three different algebras of Toeplitz operators acting on the harmonic Bergman space: The C*-algebra generated by Toeplitz operators with radial symbols, in the elliptic case; the C*-algebra generated by Toeplitz operators with piecewise continuous symbols, in the parabolic and hyperbolic cases. We prove that the Calkin algebra of the first two algebras are commutative, like in the case of the Bergman space, while the last one is not.     

Every composition operator is (mean) asymptotically Toeplitz

Nazarov and Shapiro recently showed that, while composition operators on the Hardy space H² can only trivially be Toeplitz, or even “Toeplitz plus compact,” it is an interesting problem to determine which of them can be “asymptotically Toeplitz.” I show here that if “asymptotically” is interpreted in, for example, the Cesàro (C,α) sense (α>0), then every composition operator on H² becomes asymptotically Toeplitz.     

K-theory of toeplitzC *-algebras on Lie spheres

In this paper we compute theK-groups of theC ^*-algebra of Toeplitz operators on the Lie spheres. As a corollary we get an index theorem for Toeplitz operators with matricial symbols analogous to the index theorem of Berger, Coburn and Koranyi for Toeplitz operators with scalar valued symbols.     

Commutativity of kth‐order slant Toeplitz operators

In this paper, commutativity of k^th‐order slant Toeplitz operators are discussed. We show that commutativity and essential commutativity of two slant Toeplitz operators are the same. Also, we study k^th‐order slant Toeplitz operators on the Bergman space L²_a(D) and give some commuting properties, algebraic and spectral properties of k^th‐order slant Toeplitz operators on the Bergman space (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Separately radial and radial Toeplitz operators on the projective space and representation theory

We consider separately radial (with corresponding group T ⁿ ) and radial (with corresponding group U(n)) symbols on the projective space P ⁿ (C), as well as the associated Toeplitz operators on the weighted Bergman spaces. It is known that the C*-algebras generated by each family of such Toeplitz operators are commutative (see R. Quiroga-Barranco and A. Sanchez-Nungaray (2011)). We present a new representation theoretic proof of such commutativity. Our method is easier and more enlightening as it shows that the commutativity of the C*-algebras is a consequence of the existence of multiplicity-free representations. Furthermore, our method shows how to extend the current formulas for the spectra of the corresponding Toeplitz operators to any closed group lying between T ⁿ and U(n).     

Bounded symbols and Reproducing Kernel Thesis for truncated Toeplitz operators

Compressions of Toeplitz operators to coinvariant subspaces of H² are called truncated Toeplitz operators. We study two questions related to these operators. The first, raised by Sarason, is whether boundedness of the operator implies the existence of a bounded symbol; the second is the Reproducing Kernel Thesis. We show that in general the answer to the first question is negative, and we exhibit some classes of spaces for which the answers to both questions are positive.     

On the reflexivity of subspaces of Toeplitz operators on the hardy space on the upper half-plane

The reflexivity and transitivity of subspaces of Toeplitz operators on the Hardy space on the upper half-plane are investigated. The dichotomic behavior (transitive or reflexive) of these subspaces is shown. It refers to the similar dichotomic behavior for subspaces of Toeplitz operators on the Hardy space on the unit disc. The isomorphism between the Hardy spaces on the unit disc and the upper half-plane is used. To keep weak* homeomorphism between L ^∞ spaces on the unit circle and the real line we redefine the classical isomorphism between L ¹ spaces.     

Toeplitz operators in several complex variables

Let S be the unit sphere in Cⁿ. We investigate the properties of Toeplitz operators on S, i.e., operators of the form Tφf = P(φf) where φ?L^∞(S) and P denotes the projection of L²(S) onto H²(S). The aim of this paper is to determine how far the extensive one-variable theory remains valid in higher dimensions. We establish the spectral inclusion theorem, that the spectrum of T_φ contains the essential range of φ, and obtain a characterization of the Toeplitz operators among operators on H²(S) by an operator equation. Particular attention is paid to the case where φ ? H^∞(S) + C(S) where C(S) denotes the algebra of continuous functions on S. Finally we describe a class of Toeplitz operators useful for providing counterexamples—in particular, Widom's theorem on the connectedness of the spectrum fails when n > 1.     

Asymptotic behaviours and generalized Toeplitz operators

We study some generalized Toeplitz operators associated to operators T on a Hilbert space H, for which there exists the limit of {‖Tnh‖} for every h∈H. We refer to the asymptotic limit ST of such a T, in the sense of [L. Kerchy, Operators with regular norm-sequences, Acta Sci. Math. (Szeged) 63 (1997) 571-605; L. Kerchy, Generalized Toeplitz operators, Acta Sci. Math. (Szeged) 68 (2002) 373-400; G. Cassier, Generalized Toeplitz operators, restrictions to invariant subspaces and similarity problems, J. Operator Theory 53 (1) (2005) 101-140; C.S. Kubrusly, An Introduction to Models and Decompositions in Operator Theory, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1997], and we give some conditions of ergodicity for T. Also, certain results of Douglas [R.G. Douglas, On the operator equation S^∗XT=X and related topics, Acta Sci. Math. (Szeged) 30 (1969) 19-32] involving generalized Toeplitz operators are extended in our more general setting, and we apply these results to ρ-contractions.     

The Berezin Transform and Radial Operators on the Bergman Space of the Unit Ball

In this paper, we investigate the connection between compactness of operators on the Bergman space and the boundary behaviour of the corresponding Berezin transform. We prove that for a class of operators that we call radial operators, an oscillation criterion and diagonal are sufficient conditions under which the compactness of an operator is equivalent to the vanishing of the Berezin transform on the unit sphere. We further study a special class of radial operators, i.e., Toeplitz operators with a radial L ¹(B _n ) symbol.     

Schatten classes of integration operators on Dirichlet spaces

We address the problem of determining membership in Schatten-Von Neumann ideals S _p of integration operators (T _g f)(z) = ∫ ₀ ^z = ∫ ₀ ^z f(ξ)g′(ξ)dξ acting on Dirichlet type spaces. We also study this problem for multiplication, Hankel and Toeplitz operators. In particular, we provide an extension of Luecking's result on Toeplitz operators [10, p. 347].     

Commuting Toeplitz operators on the Segal-Bargmann space

Consider two Toeplitz operators Tg, Tf on the Segal-Bargmann space over the complex plane. Let us assume that g is a radial function and both operators commute. Under certain growth condition at infinity of f and g we show that f must be radial, as well. We give a counterexample of this fact in case of bounded Toeplitz operators but a fast growing radial symbol g. In this case the vanishing commutator [Tg,Tf]=0 does not imply the radial dependence of f. Finally, we consider Toeplitz operators on the Segal-Bargmann space over Cn and n>1, where the commuting property of Toeplitz operators can be realized more easily.