Finiteness of the discrete spectrum of some block Toeplitz operators (Q2367528)

Let \(A(t)\) be a continuous selfadjoint \(n\times m\)-matrix function defined on the unit circle \(\Gamma\), and \(T_ A(f)= PA(f)\) the Toeplitz operator defined on the Hardy space \(H_ 2^ n(\Gamma)\), where \(P: L_ 2^ n (\Gamma)\to H_ 2^ n (\Gamma)\) is the usual projection. For \((a,b)\) any gap in the essential spectrum of \(T_ A\), assume that the function \(\text{det} (A(t)-a)\) has a finite number of zeros, each of them is of finite order, and denote by \(r\) the maximum order of these zeros. Then the author proves that: If the entries of \(A(t)\) belong to \(C^{(2m+1)}\) with \(m\geq r\), then the spectrum of \(T_ A\) in \((a,b-\varepsilon)\), where \(\varepsilon>0\), consists of at most a finite number of eigenvalues.