Toeplitz operator

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In operator theory, a Toeplitz operator is the compression of a multiplication operator on the circle to the Hardy space.

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Let $S^{1}$ be the complex unit circle, with the standard Lebesgue measure, and $L^{2}(S^{1})$ be the Hilbert space of square-integrable functions. A bounded measurable function $g$ on $S^{1}$ defines a multiplication operator $M_{g}$ on $L^{2}(S^{1})$ . Let $P$ be the projection from $L^{2}(S^{1})$ onto the Hardy space $H^{2}$ . The Toeplitz operator with symbol $g$ is defined by

T_{g}=PM_{g}\vert _{H^{2}},

where " | " means restriction.

A bounded operator on $H^{2}$ is Toeplitz if and only if its matrix representation, in the basis $\{z^{n},z\in \mathbb {C} ,n\geq 0\}$ , has constant diagonals.

Theorems

Theorem: If $g$ is continuous, then $T_{g}-\lambda$ is Fredholm if and only if $\lambda$ is not in the set $g(S^{1})$ . If it is Fredholm, its index is minus the winding number of the curve traced out by $g$ with respect to the origin.

For a proof, see Douglas (1972 , p.185). He attributes the theorem to Mark Krein, Harold Widom, and Allen Devinatz. This can be thought of as an important special case of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem.

Axler-Chang-Sarason Theorem: The operator $T_{f}T_{g}-T_{fg}$ is compact if and only if $H^{\infty }[{\bar {f}}]\cap H^{\infty }[g]\subseteq H^{\infty }+C^{0}(S^{1})$ .

Here, $H^{\infty }$ denotes the closed subalgebra of $L^{\infty }(S^{1})$ of analytic functions (functions with vanishing negative Fourier coefficients), $H^{\infty }[f]$ is the closed subalgebra of $L^{\infty }(S^{1})$ generated by $f$ and $H^{\infty }$ , and $C^{0}(S^{1})$ is the space (as an algebraic set) of continuous functions on the circle. See S.Axler, S-Y. Chang, D. Sarason (1978).

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References

S.Axler, S-Y. Chang, D. Sarason (1978), "Products of Toeplitz operators", Integral Equations and Operator Theory, 1 (3): 285–309, doi:10.1007/BF01682841, S2CID 120610368 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Böttcher, Albrecht; Grudsky, Sergei M. (2000), Toeplitz Matrices, Asymptotic Linear Algebra, and Functional Analysis, Birkhäuser, ISBN 978-3-0348-8395-5 .
Böttcher, A.; Silbermann, B. (2006), Analysis of Toeplitz Operators, Springer Monographs in Mathematics (2nd ed.), Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-32434-8 .
Douglas, Ronald (1972), Banach Algebra techniques in Operator theory, Academic Press.
Rosenblum, Marvin; Rovnyak, James (1985), Hardy Classes and Operator Theory, Oxford University Press. Reprinted by Dover Publications, 1997, ISBN 978-0-486-69536-5.

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