Toeplitz and singular integral operators on Carleson curves with logarithmic whirl points

We consider Toeplitz operators with piecewise continuous symbols and singular integral operators with piecewise continuous coefficients onL ^p (,w) where 1<p<,w is a Muckenhoupt weight and belongs to a large class of Carleson curves. This class includes curves with corners and cusps as well as curves that look locally like two logarithmic spirals scrolling up at the same point. Our main result says that the essential spectrum of a Toeplitz operator is obtained from the essential range of its symbol by joining the endpoints of each jump by a certain spiralic horn, which may degenerate to a usual horn, a logarithmic spiral, a circular arc or a line segment if the curve and the weightw behave sufficiently well at the point where the symbol has a jump. This result implies a symbol calculus for the closed algebra of singular integral operators with piecewise continuous coefficients onL ^p (,w).Research supported by the Alfried Krupp Förderpreis für junge Hochschullehrer of the Krupp Foundation.     

Asymptotic behavior of one-parameter semigroups of positive operators

In this paper we survey the Perron-Frobenius spectral theory for positive semigroups on Banach lattices and indicate its applications to stability theory of retarded differential equations and quasi-periodic flows.     

On perturbations of linear m-accretive operators on reflexive Banach spaces

In this note we prove some results on the m-accretivity of sums and products of linear operators. In particular we obtain the following theorem: LetA, B be two m-accretive operators on a reflexive Banach space. IfA is invertible and (A)^–1 B is accretive thenBA ^–1 andA+B are m-accretive.     

On a class of quasi-Fredholm operators

We study a class of bounded linear operators acting on a Banach spaceX called B-Fredholm operators. Among other things we characterize a B-Fredholm operator as the direct sum of a nilpotent operator and a Fredholm operator and we prove a spectral mapping theorem for B-Fredholm operators.IMemory of my father, Sidi-Bouhouria 1914-0991.     

On extremal perturbations of semi-Fredholm operators

Given a bounded linear operatorA in an infinite dimensional Banach space and a compact subset of a connected component of its semi-Fredholm domain, we construct a finite rank operatorF such that –A+F is bounded below (or surjective) for each ,F ²=0 and rankF=max min{dimN(–A), codimR(–A)}, if ind(–A)0 (or ind(–A)0, respectively) for each .     

Compact and inessential perturbations of operators with closed range

The size of the perturbation class {SL(E)S has closed range}+I(E) is studied, whereE is a Banach space andI(E) stands for various classical operator ideals. For instance, it is shown for the ideal consisting of the inessential operators that the resulting perturbation class does not exhaust the class of bounded linear operators under natural structural conditions onE. It is known from a recent result of Gowers and Maurey that some conditions are needed.Partially supported by the Academy of Finland     

Small compact perturbation of strongly irreducible operators

An operatorT onH is called strongly irreducible ifT is not similar to any reducible operators. In this paper, we shall say yes to answer the following question raised by D. A. Herrero.Given an operatorT with connected spectrum (T) and a positive number , can we find a compact operatorK with K < such thatT+K is strongly irreducible?Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(19901011), Mathematical Center of State Education Commission of China and 973 Project of China     

On Compact Perturbations of Locally Definitizable Selfadjoint Relations in Krein Spaces

The aim of this paper is to prove two perturbation results for a selfadjoint operator A in a Krein space which can roughly be described as follows: (1) If is an open subset of and all spectral subspaces for A corresponding to compact subsets of have finite rank of negativity, the same is true for a selfadjoint operator B in for which the difference of the resolvents of A and B is compact. (2) The property that there exists some neighbourhood of such that the restriction of A to a spectral subspace for A corresponding to is a nonnegative operator in is preserved under relative perturbations in form sense if the resulting operator is again selfadjoint. The assertion (1) is proved for selfadjoint relations A and B. (1) and (2) generalize some known results.     

Extremal feedback perturbations for families of closed operators

Let T- S, be a family of not necessarily bounded semi-Fredholm operators, where T and S are operators acting between Banach spaces X and Y, and where S is bounded with D(S) D(T). For compact sets , as well as for certain open sets , we investigate existence and minimal rank of bounded feedback perturbations of the form F=BE such that min.ind (T-S+F)=0 for all . Here B is a given operator from a linear space Z to Y and E is some operator from X to Z.We give a simple characterization of that situation, when such regularizing feedback perturbations exist and show that for compact sets the minimal rank never exceeds max { min.ind (T-S) }+1. Moreover, an example shows that the minimal rank, in fact, may increase from max {...} to max {...}+1, if the given B enforces a certain structure of the feedbachk perturbation F.However, the minimal rank is equal to max { min.ind (T-S) }, if is an open set such that min.ind (T-S) already vanishes for all but finitely many points . We illustrate this result by applying it to the stabilization of certain infinite-dimensional dynamical systems in Hilbert space.