Reducing subspaces for Toeplitz operator \(T_{z_1^{k_1} z_2^{k_2} + a\overline{z}_1^{l_1}\overline{z}_2^{l_2}}\) on the weighted Hardy space over the bidisk (Q2138121)

This work completely characterizes reducing subspaces for Toeplitz operators with a specific class of polynomial symbols. The Toeplitz operators considered act on the weighted Hardy spaces and weighted Dirichlet spaces of the bidisc. The symbols considered are of the form \[ \varphi_a=z^k+a\overline{z}^l \] where \(a\in (0,1)\), \(k,l\in \mathbb{N}^2\), and \(l\neq k\). In addition, it is shown that the reducing subspace for the Toeplitz operator \(T_{\varphi_a}\) does not depend on \(a\). The proofs use direct computations.