Department of Mathematics, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia 24450 ; Department of Mathematics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837
Abstract:
We show how to compute the Fredholm index of a Toeplitz operator with a continuous symbol constructed from any subnormal operator with compact self-commutator. We also show that the essential spectral pictures of such Toeplitz operators can be prescribed arbitrarily.