Toeplitz operators on weighted Bergman spaces

In 2], Axler, Conway and McDonald, discuss the essential spectrum of Toeplitz operator, with continuous symbol, on the unweighted Bergman space. This paper extends their results to the weighted Bergman space, where the weight and its logarithm are assumed to be locally integrable.This paper represents part of the author's Ph.D. thesis, written at Indiana University under the direction of Professor John B. Conway.