Carleson curves, Muckenhoupt weights, and Toeplitz operators (Q1372821)

The book presents an excellent introduction to the spectral theory of singular integral operators (SIOs) with piecewise continuous coefficients on a Carleson curve \(\Gamma\) in the Lebesgue space \(L_p(\Gamma,w)\) with a Muckenhoupt weight \(w(t)\). Due to complexity of curves and weights (most general where SIO is still bounded in \(L_p(\Gamma,w))\) the spectra are extremely rich and impressive (cf. pictures in the book). Spectra of the Cauchy singular integral operator \(S_\Gamma\) in \(L_p(\Gamma,w),\) wherein \(w(t)\) is an exponential weight \(\prod_k|t-t_j|^{\alpha_j}\) and \(\Gamma\) is piecewise smooth, consist of two circular arcs connecting points \(\pm 1\) in the complex plane (H. Widom, I. Gohherg, N. Krupnik). These arcs metamorphose into logarithmic double spirals for complicated curves and might blow up further into massive spectral sets which have logarithmic double spirals as boundary. Most interesting seems to be the existence of instability points: for certain values of weight parameters their interference with non-piecewise-smooth Carleson curves results into sudden disappearance of logarithmic spirals and emergence of so called leaves. To observe the full picture of above mentioned metamorphosis of the spectra of singular integral operators the language of Toeplitz operators is applied which is convenient and closely related. Other technical tools playing a dominant role in the book are the local principle, \(N\)-projections and geometric theory of functions. The book contains almost 400 pages, 213 references and 48 illustrations. The table of content provides an overall view of topics and results elucidated in the book. Contents: Preface, 1. Carleson curves 1.1 Definitions and examples 1.2 Growth of the argument 1.3 Seifullayev bounds 1.4 Submultiplicative functions 1.5 The W-transform 1.6 Spirality indices 1.7 Notes and comments 2. Muckenhoupt weights 2.1 Definitions 2.2 Power weights 2.3 The logarithm of a Muckenhoupt weight 2.4 Symmetric and periodic reproduction 2.5 Portions versus arcs 2.6 The maximal operator 2.7 The reverse Hölder inequality 2.8 Stability of Muckenhoupt weights 2.9 Muckenhoupt condition and W-transform 2.10 Oscillating weights 2.11 Notes and comments 3. Interaction between curve and weight 3.1 Moduli of complex powers 3.2 \(U\) and \(V\) transforms 3.3 Muckenhoupt condition and \(U\) transform 3.4 Indicator set and \(U\) transform 3.5 Indicator functions 3.6 Indices of powerlikeness 3.7 Shape of the indicator function 3.8 Indicator functions of prescribed shape 3.9 Notes and comments 4. Boundedness of the Cauchy singular integral 4.1 The Cauchy singular integral 4.2 Necessary conditions for boundedness 4.3 Special curves and weights 4.4 Brief survey of results on general curves and weights 4.5 Composing curves and weights 4.6 Notes and comments 5. Weighted norm inequalities 5.1 Again the maximal operator 5.2 The Calderón-Zygmund decomposition 5.3 Cotlar's inequality 5.4 Good \(\lambda\) inequalities 5.5 Modified maximal operators 5.6 The maximal singular integral operator 5.7 Lipschitz curves 5.8 Measures in the plane 5.9 Cotlar's inequality in the plane 5.10 Maximal singular integrals in the plane 5.11 Approximation by Lipschitz curves 5.12 Completing the puzzle 5.13 Notes and comments 6. General properties of Toeplitz operators 6.1 Smirnov classes 6.2 Weighted Hardy spaces 6.3 Fredholm operators 6.4 Toeplitz operators 6.5 Adjoints 6.6 Two basic theorems 6.7 Hankel operators 6.8 Continuous symbols 6.9 Classical Toeplitz matrice 6.10 Separation of discontinuities 6.11 Localization 6.12 Wiener-Hopf factorization 6.13 Notes and comments 7. Piecewise continuous symbols 7.1 Local representatives 7.2 Fredholm criteria 7.3 Leaves and essential spectrum 7.4 Metamorphosis of leaves 7.5 Logarithmic leaves 7.6 General leaves 7.7 Index and spectrum 7.8 Semi-Fredholmness 7.9 Notes and comments 8. Banach algebras 8.1 General theorems 8.2 Operators of local type 8.3 Algebras generated by idempotents 8.4 An N projections theorem 8.5 Algebras associated with Jordan curves 8.6 Notes and comments 9. Composed curves 9.1 Extending Carleson stars 9.2 Extending Muckenhoupt weights 9.4 Local algebras 9.5 Symbol calculus 9.6 Essential spectrum of the Cauchy singular integral 9.7 Notes and comments 10. Further results 10.1 Matrix case 10.2 Index formulas 10.3 Kernel and cokernel dimensions 10.4 Spectrum of the Cauchy singular integral 10.5 Orlicz spaces 10.6 Mellin techniques 10.7 Wiener-Hopf integral operators 10.8 Zero-order pseudodifferential operators 10.9 Conformal welding and Haseman's problem 10.10 Notes and comments Bibliography, Index.