Half plane Toeplitz operators with generating functions having homogeneous discontinuities

We consider Toeplitz operators over the discrete half plane with generating functions admitting discontinuities of special kind which we call homogenous ones. The main results are the criteria of invertibility and one‐sided invertibility of such operators. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Geometry of phase plane and radial solutions for nonlinear elliptic equations with extremal operators

We study the existence of positive radially symmetric solutions to a class of nonlinear elliptic problems involving extremal operators and nonlinearity of exponential or polynomial type. According to the values of a parameter, we describe situations where the equation has one, finitely many, infinitely many or no solutions, by using the geometry structure of phase plane.     

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).     

Quantum differential operators on the quantum plane

The universal enveloping algebra of a Lie algebra acts on its representation ring R through D(R), the ring of differential operators on R. A quantised universal enveloping algebra (or quantum group) is a deformation of a universal enveloping algebra and acts not through the differential operators of its representation ring but through the quantised differential operators of its representation ring. We present this situation for the quantum group of sl₂.     

Little Hankel operators on the half plane

In this paper we consider a class of weighted integral operators onL ² (0, ) and show that they are unitarily equivalent to Hankel operators on weighted Bergman spaces of the right half plane. We discuss conditions for the Hankel integral operator to be finite rank, Hilbert-Schmidt, nuclear and compact, expressed in terms of the kernel of the integral operator. For a particular class of weights these operators are shown to be unitarily equivalent to little Hankel operators on weighted Bergman spaces of the disc, and the symbol correspondence is given. Finally the special case of the unweighted Bergman space is considered and for this case, motivated by approximation problems in systems theory, some asymptotic results on the singular values of Hankel integral operators are provided.     

Convergence of powers of composition operators on certain spaces of holomorphic functions defined on the right half plane

This paper studies the asymptotic behaviour of the powers \(C_\varphi ^n\) of a composition operator \(C_\varphi \) on certain spaces of holomorphic functions defined on the right half plane \(\mathbb {C}_+\). It is shown that for composition operators on the Hardy spaces and the standard weighted Bergman spaces, if the inducing map \(\varphi \) is not of parabolic type, then either the powers \(C_\varphi ^n\) converge uniformly only to 0 or they do not converge even strongly.     

The Berezin transform and radial operators

We analyze the connection between compactness of operators on the Bergman space and the boundary behaviour of the corresponding Berezin transform. We prove that for a special class of operators that we call radial operators, an oscilation criterion is a sufficient condition under which the compactness of an operator is equivalent to the vanishing of the Berezin transform on the unit circle. We further study a special class of radial operators, i.e., Toeplitz operators with a radial symbol.

     

Directional maximal operators with smooth densities

We study directional maximal operators on ?ⁿ with smooth densities. We prove that if the classical directional maximal operator in a given set of directions is weak type (1, 1), then the corresponding smooth‐density maximal operator in that set of directions will be bounded on L^q for q suitably large, depending on the order of the stationary points of the density function. In contrast to the classical case, if q is too small, the smooth density operator need not be bounded on L^q. Improving upon previously known results, we also establish that if the density function has only finitely many extreme points, each of finite order, then any maximal operator in a finite sum of diadic directions is bounded on all L^q for q > 1 (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Composition operators on Bergman spaces over the punctured plane

We study the spaces of holomorphic functions on the punctured plane which are square integrable with respect to a weight. We determine when these spaces are finite-dimensional and which are composition operators acting on them, studying their cyclicity and hypercyclicity properties.     

Affine functions on simplexes and extreme operators

IfK a simplex andX a Banach space thenA(K, X) denotes the space of affine continuous functions fromK toX with the supremum norm. The extreme points of the closed unit ball ofA(K, X) are characterized,X being supposed to satisfy certain conditions. This characterization is used to investigate the extreme compact operators from a Banach spaceX to the spaceA(K)=A(K, (− ∞, ∞)). This note is part of the author’s Ph.D. thesis prepared at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. A. Dvoretzky and Dr. J. Lindenstrauss. The author wishes to thank them for their helpful advice and kind encouragement.     

Parking functions and vertex operators

We introduce several associative algebras and families of vector spaces associated to these algebras. Using lattice vertex operators, we obtain dimension and character formulae for these spaces. In particular, we define a family of representations of symmetric groups which turn out to be isomorphic to parking function modules. We also construct families of vector spaces whose dimensions are Catalan numbers and Fuss–Catalan numbers respectively. Conjecturally, these spaces are related to spaces of global sections of vector bundles on (zero fibres of) Hilbert schemes and representations of rational Cherednik algebras.      

Transfer operators acting on Zygmund functions

We obtain a formula for the essential spectral radius of transfer-type operators associated with families of diffeomorphisms of the line and Zygmund, or Hölder, weights acting on Banach spaces of Zygmund (respectively Hölder) functions. In the uniformly contracting case the essential spectral radius is strictly smaller than the spectral radius when the weights are positive.

     

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.     

Projective equivalence of smooth functions on the plane

In this paper, we find differential invariants for the action of the projective group on the space of smooth functions on the plane and propose a classification of orbits of this action.     

Ultradifferentiable functions on smooth plane curves

The regularity, in the sense of ultradifferentiability, of real functions of two variables is determined in terms of the regularity of their restrictions to a given family of smooth plane curves. The special case of line segments reduces to the main result in [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999) 2099-2104]. As a consequence, the Bochnak-Siciak theorem on real analyticity is obtained. A formal analog of one of the results provides a generalization of the two-variable case of the Abhyankar and Moh [J. Reine Angew. Math. 241 (1970) 27-33] theorem.     

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.     

Hankel convolution operators on entire functions and distributions

In this paper we study the Hankel convolution operators on the space of even and entire functions and on Schwartz distribution spaces. We characterize the Hankel convolution operators as those ones that commute with Hankel translations and with a Bessel operator. Also we prove that the Hankel convolution operators are hypercyclic and chaotic on the spaces under consideration.