Abstract Hankel Operators in Kreĭn Spaces

Hankel operators and their symbols, as generalized by V. Pták and P. Vrbová, are considered in the Kreĭn space setting. Under a generic assumption, without which the Krein space case may be untreatable, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of Hankel symbols for a given Hankel operator X is given. A parametric labeling of the Hankel symbols of X by means of Schur class functions is obtained. The proof is established by associating to the data of the problem an isometry V acting on a Kreĭn space so that there is a bijective correspondence between the symbols of X and the minimal unitary Hilbert space extensions of V . The result includes uniqueness criteria and a Schur like formula.     

On Ptak's Generalization of Hankel Operators

In 1997 Ptak defined generalized Hankel operators as follows: Given two contractions and , an operator is said to be a generalized Hankel operator if and X satisfies a boundedness condition that depends on the unitary parts of the minimal isometric dilations of T ₁ and T ₂. This approach, call it (P), contrasts with a previous one developed by Ptak and Vrbova in 1988, call it (PV), based on the existence of a previously defined generalized Toeplitz operator. There seemed to be a strong but somewhat hidden connection between the theories (P) and (PV) and we clarify that connection by proving that (P) is more general than (PV), even strictly more general for some T ₁ and T ₂, and by studying when they coincide. Then we characterize the existence of Hankel operators, Hankel symbols and analytic Hankel symbols, solving in this way some open problems proposed by Ptak.     

A fast method to block-diagonalize a Hankel matrix

In this paper, we consider an approximate block diagonalization algorithm of an n×n real Hankel matrix in which the successive transformation matrices are upper triangular Toeplitz matrices, and propose a new fast approach to compute the factorization in O(n ²) operations. This method consists on using the revised Bini method (Lin et al., Theor Comp Sci 315: 511–523, 2004). To motivate our approach, we also propose an approximate factorization variant of the customary fast method based on Schur complementation adapted to the n×n real Hankel matrix. All algorithms have been implemented in Matlab and numerical results are included to illustrate the effectiveness of our approach.     

Finite Rank Hankel Operators over the Complex Wiener Space

This work studies finite rank Hankel operators H _b on a Hilbert space of holomorphic, square integrable Wiener functionals. The main tool to investigate these operators is their unitary equivalent representation on the Hilbert space of skeletons. The finite rank property is characterized in terms of a functional equation for the symbol b, which generalizes the well known equation b(z+w)=b(z)b(w). Also finite rank symbols of polynomial type are characterized in terms of their chaos expansions.     

A Generalization of Hankel Operators

We introduce a class of operators, called λ-Hankel operators, as those that satisfy the operator equation S*X−XS=λX, where S is the unilateral forward shift and λ is a complex number. We investigate some of the properties of λ-Hankel operators and show that much of their behaviour is similar to that of the classical Hankel operators (0-Hankel operators). In particular, we show that positivity of λ-Hankel operators is equivalent to a generalized Hamburger moment problem. We show that certain linear spaces of noninvertible operators have the property that every compact subset of the complex plane containing zero is the spectrum of an operator in the space. This theorem generalizes a known result for Hankel operators and applies to λ-Hankel operators for certain λ. We also study some other operator equations involving S.     

The Pseudo-differential Operator hμ,a on Hankel Invariant Spaces

Using Hankel transform the symbol 'a' is defined and the pseudo-differential operator (p.d.o.) h_μ,a associated with the Bessel operator d ²/dx ² + (1 ? 4μ ²)/4x ² in terms of this symbol is defined. It is shown that the operator h_μ,a is a continuous linear map of a Hankel invariant space into itself. A special pseudo-differential operator called the Hankel potential is defined and some of its properties are investigated.     

A note on Schatten‐class membership of Hankel operators with antiholomorphic symbols on generalized Fock‐spaces

In this paper we investigate Hankel operators with anti‐holomorphic L²‐symbols on generalized Fock spaces A_m² in one complex dimension. The investigation of the mentioned operators was started in [4] and [3]. Here, we show that a Hankel operator with anti‐holomorphic L²‐symbol is in the Schatten‐class S_p if and only if the symbol is a polynomial with degree N satisfying 2N < m and p > . The result has been proved independently before in the recent work [2], which also considers the case of several complex variables. However, in addition to providing a different proof for the result the present work shows that the methodology developed in [4] and [3] can be adopted in order to work to characterize Schatten‐class membership. (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Hankel Operators over the Complex Wiener Space

This work introduces and investigates (small) Hankel operators H _b on the Hilbert space of holomorphic, square integrable Wiener functionals. A regularity condition on the symbol b, which guarantees the boundedness of H _b , is provided. The symbols b for which H _b is of Hilbert–Schmidt type are characterized, and a representation of H _b by an integral operator is given. The proofs employ the hypercontractivity of the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck semigroup, together with approximations by finitely many variables. These results extend known results from a finite-dimensional context.     

A Prime Sensitive Hankel Determinant of Jacobi Symbol Enumerators

We show that the determinant of a Hankel matrix of odd dimension n whose entries are the enumerators of the Jacobi symbols which depend on the row and the column indices vanishes if and only if n is composite. If the dimension is a prime p, then the determinant evaluates to a polynomial of degree p − 1 which is the product of a power of p and the generating polynomial of the partial sums of Legendre symbols. The sign of the determinant is determined by the quadratic character of −1 modulo p. The proof of the evaluation makes use of elementary properties of Legendre symbols, quadratic Gauss sums, and orthogonality of trigonometric functions.     

Hankel operators on the Dirichlet space

We study (small) Hankel operators on the Dirichlet space D with symbols in a class of function space, and show that such (small) Hankel operators are closely related to the corresponding Hankel operators on the Bergman space and the Hardy space H².     

A Duduchava-Saginashvili's type theory for Wiener-Hopf plus Hankel operators

This paper presents a Duduchava-Saginashvili's type theory for Wiener-Hopf plus Hankel operators with semi-almost periodic Fourier symbols and acting between Lp Lebesgue spaces. This means the obtainment of one-sided invertibility and Fredholm property for these operators upon certain mean values of the representatives at infinity of their Fourier symbols. Additionally, a formula for the Fredholm index is provided by introducing a corresponding winding number of some new elements.     

Hankel and Toeplitz–Schur multipliers

We study the problem of characterizing Hankel–Schur multipliers and Toeplitz–Schur multipliers of Schatten–von Neumann class for . We obtain various sharp necessary conditions and sufficient conditions for a Hankel matrix to be a Schur multiplier of . We also give a characterization of the Hankel–Schur multipliers of whos e symbols have lacunary power series. Then the results on Hankel–Schur multipliers are used to obtain a characterization of the Toeplitz–Schur multipliers of . Finally, we return to Hankel–Schur multipliers and obtain new results in the case when the symbol of the Hankel matrix is a complex measure on the unit circle. Received: 16 February 2001 / revised version: 2 December 2001 / Published online: 27 June 2002 The first author is partially supported by Grant 99-01-00103 of Russian Foundation of Fundamental Studies and by Grant 326.53 of Integration. The second author is partially supported by NSF grant DMS 9970561.     

Hankel operators and the Stieltjes moment problem

Let s be a non-vanishing Stieltjes moment sequence and let μ be a representing measure of it. We denote by μn the image measure in Cn of μ⊗σn under the map , where σn is the rotation invariant probability measure on the unit sphere. We show that the closure of holomorphic polynomials in L²(μn) is a reproducing kernel Hilbert space of analytic functions and describe various spectral properties of the corresponding Hankel operators with anti-holomorphic symbols. In particular, if n=1, we prove that there are nontrivial Hilbert-Schmidt Hankel operators with anti-holomorphic symbols if and only if s is exponentially bounded. In this case, the space of symbols of such operators is shown to be the classical Dirichlet space. We mention that the classical weighted Bergman spaces, the Hardy space and Fock type spaces fall in this setting.     

Note: Combinatorial Alexander Duality—A Short and Elementary Proof

Let X be a simplicial complex with ground set V. Define its Alexander dual as the simplicial complex X ^*={σ⊆V∣V∖σ ∉ X}. The combinatorial Alexander duality states that the ith reduced homology group of X is isomorphic to the (|V|−i−3)th reduced cohomology group of X ^* (over a given commutative ring R). We give a self-contained proof from first principles accessible to a nonexpert.     

Generalized Hankel operators on the Fock space

In this paper we study generalized Hankel operators ofthe form : ?²(|z |²) → L²(|z |²). Here, (f):= (Id–P_l )( ^kf) and Pl is the projection onto A_l ²(?, |z |²):= cl(span{ ^m zⁿ | m, n ∈ N, m ≤ l }). The investigations in this article extend the ones in [11] and [6], where the special cases l = 0 and l = 1 are considered, respectively. The main result is that the operators are not bounded for l < k – 1. The proof relies on a combinatoric argument and a generalization to general conjugate holomorphic L² symbols, generalizing arguments from [6], seems possible and is planned for future work (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

A Frobenius–Schur Theorem for Hopf Algebras

We prove a version of the Frobenius–Schur theorem for a finite-dimensional semisimple Hopf algebra H over an algebraically closed field; if the field has characteristic p not 0, H is also assumed to be cosemisimple. Then for each irreducible representation V of H, we define a Schur indicator for V, which reduces to the classical Schur indicator when H is the group algebra of a finite group. We prove that this indicator is 0 if and only if V is not self-dual. If V is self dual, then the indicator is positive (respectively, negative) if and only if V admits a nondegenerate bilinear symmetric (resp., skew-symmetric) H-invariant form. A more general result is proved for algebras with involution.     

A note on the existence, uniqueness and symmetry of par-balanced realizations

We give a proof of the realization theorem of N.J. Young which states that analytic functions which are symbols of bounded Hankel operators admit par-balanced realizations. The main tool used in this proof is the induced Hilbert spaces and a lifting lemma of Kreîn-Reid-Lax-Dieudonné. Alternatively one can use the Loewner inequality. A short proof of the uniqueness of par-balanced realizations is included. As an application, it is proved that par-balanced realizations of real symmetric transfer functions areJ-self-adjoint.Research supported in part by the Romanian Academy grant GAR-6645/1996.This research was supported in part by NSF grant DMS-9501223.     

Relating transplantation and multipliers for Dunkl and Hankel transforms

By expressing the Dunkl transform of order α of a function f in terms of the Hankel transforms of orders α and α + 1 of even and odd parts of f, respectively, we show that a considerable part of harmonic analysis of the Dunkl transform on the real line may be reduced to known results for the Hankel transform. In particular, defining the modified Dunkl transform and then considering the Dunkl transplantation operator we transfer known multiplier results for the Hankel transform to the Dunkl transform setting. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)