The Spectral Theory of Toeplitz Operators Applied to Approximation Problems in Hilbert Spaces

The solution to a particular constrained approximation problem, in an abstract Hilbert space setting, may be interpreted in terms of a generalised Toeplitz operator. We consider concrete versions of this problem, in settings which involve generalised Hardy spaces, Paley–Wiener spaces and the Segal–Bargmann space, and derive spectral representations of the associated Toeplitz operators.