A Class of Operators on L h 2 . II

Let D be the open unit disk in C, and L _h ² the space of quadratic integrable harmonic functions defined on D. Let be a function in L(D) with the property that (b) = lim _x b,xD (x) for all b D. Define the operator C on L _h ² as follows: C(f) = Q( · f), where Q is the orthogonal projection of L²(D) onto L _h ² . In this paper it is shown that if C is Fredholm, then is bounded away from zero on a neighborhood of D. Also, if C is compact, then |D 0, and the commutator ideal of (D) is K(D), where (D) denotes the norm closed subalgebra of the algebra of all bounded operators on L _h ² generated by , and K(D) is the ideal of compact operators on L _h ² . Finally, the spectrum of classes of operators defined on L _h ² is characterized.