Hyponormality and subnormality of block Toeplitz operators

block Toeplitz operator bounded type function hyponormal operator rational function square-hyponormal operator subnormal operator Toeplitz subnormal completion problem trigonometric polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hardy spaces (30H10) Several-variable operator theory (spectral, Fredholm, etc.) (47A13) Dilations, extensions, compressions of linear operators (47A20) Linear operator methods in interpolation, moment and extension problems (47A57) Subnormal operators, hyponormal operators, etc. (47B20) Toeplitz operators, Hankel operators, Wiener-Hopf operators (47B35)

Abstract: In this paper we are concerned with hyponormality and subnormality of block Toeplitz operators acting on the vector-valued Hardy space

H_{m a t h b b C^{n}}^{2}

of the unit circle. Firstly, we establish a tractable and explicit criterion on the hyponormality of block Toeplitz operators having bounded type symbols via the triangularization theorem for compressions of the shift operator. Secondly, we consider the gap between hyponormality and subnormality for block Toeplitz operators. This is closely related to Halmos's Problem 5: Is every subnormal Toeplitz operator either normal or analytic? We show that if

P h i

is a matrix-valued rational function whose co-analytic part has a coprime factorization then every hyponormal Toeplitz operator

T_{P h i}

whose square is also hyponormal must be either normal or analytic. Thirdly, using the subnormal theory of block Toeplitz operators, we give an answer to the following "Toeplitz completion" problem: Find the unspecified Toeplitz entries of the partial block Toeplitz matrix

A:=[U^*& ? ?&U^*]

so that

A

becomes subnormal, where

U

is the unilateral shift on

H^{2}

.

Review text

An operator \(T\) on a Hilbert space is said to be normal if \(T^*T-TT^*=0\), hyponormal if \(T^*T-TT^*\geq 0\), and subnormal if it has a normal extension. The paper is devoted to hyponormality and subnormality of block Toeplitz operators acting on the vector-valued Hardy space \(H^2\) of the unit circle. A function \(\varphi\in L^\infty\) is said to be of bounded type (or in the Nevanlinna class) if there are analytic functions \(\psi_1,\psi_2\in H^\infty\) such that \(\varphi=\psi_1/\psi_2\) almost everywhere on the unit circle. The first main result of the paper is a criterion for the hyponormality of block Toeplitz operators with bounded type symbols. The second main result is related to the Halmos problem: is every subnormal Toeplitz operator either normal or analytic? It is shown that, if \(\Phi\) is a matrix-valued rational function whose co-analytic part has a coprime factorization, then every hyponormal Toeplitz operator \(T_\Phi\) whose square is also hyponromal must be either normal or analytic. Third, using the subnormality theory of block Toeplitz operators, the authors give an answer to a Toeplitz subnormal completion problem. Finally, some open problems are listed.

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