Compactness of Semicommutators of Toeplitz operators -- a Characterization

Abstract: Let

T_{f}

denote the Toeplitz operator on the Hardy space

H^{2} (m a t h b b T)

and let

T_{n} (f)

be the corresponding

n i m e s n

Toeplitz matrix. In this paper, we characterize the compactness of the operators

T_{| f |^{2}} - T_{f} T_{o v e r l i n e f}

and

T_{| i l d e f |^{2}} - T_{i l d e f} T_{o v e r l i n e i l d e f},

where

i l d e f (z) = f (z^{- 1}),

in terms of the convergence of the sequence

T_{n} (| f |^{2}) - T_{n} (f) T_{n} (o v e r l i n e f)

in the sense of singular value clustering. Hence we obtain a method to check the compactness of semicommutators of Toeplitz operators using the matrices obtained from the Fourier coefficients of the symbol function (Toeplitz matrices). The function space

V M O c a p L^{i n f t y} (m a t h b b T)

is the largest

C^{*}

-subalgebra of

L^{i n f t y} (m a t h b b T)

with the property that whenever

f, g i n V M O c a p L^{i n f t y} (m a t h b b T)

,

T_{f g} - T_{f} T_{g}

is compact. In this article, we obtain a characterization of

V M O c a p L^{i n f t y} (m a t h b b T)

in terms of the convergence of

T_{n} (f g) - T_{n} (f) T_{n} (g)

in the sense of singular value clustering. To be precise,

V M O c a p L^{i n f t y} (m a t h b b T)

is the largest

C^{*}

-subalgebra of

L^{i n f t y} (m a t h b b T)

with the property that whenever

f, g i n V M O c a p L^{i n f t y} (m a t h b b T)

,

T_{n} (f g) - T_{n} (f) T_{n} (g)

converges in the sense of singular value clustering.

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