On a weighted Toeplitz operator and its commutant (Q2570929)

The author studies the particular class of weighted Toeplitz operators on \(H^2(\beta)\) with symbol in the set \(\{\phi: \phi (z)=az^k +\frac{b}{z^k},| a| >| b| \}\) and obtains a description of the commutant of such a weighted Toeplitz operator . On the basis of a conjecture which is left as an open problem, the author proves that the only operator in the commutant which is not a scalar multiple of the identity operator and which commutes with nonzero compact operators is zero.