Hyponormal trigonometric Toeplitz operators (Q2869929)

A bounded linear operator \(A\) on a Hilbert space is said to be hyponormal if \(A^*A-AA^*\geq 0\). The hyponormality of Toeplitz operators \(T_\varphi\) with polynomial symbols \(\varphi\) on the Hardy space \(H^2({\mathbb T})\) of the unit circle \({\mathbb T}\) is studied via the Carathéodory-Schur interpolation problem. Several equivalent conditions for the equality rank \((T_\varphi^*T_\varphi-T_\varphi T_\varphi^*)=r\) are found. The following result on a hyponormal extension is proved.NEWLINENEWLINETheorem. Suppose that \(m<N\) and \(\psi=\overline{h}+f\), where \(f\) and \(h\) are analytic polynomials of degree \(N\). If \(T_\psi\) is hyponormal, then for each analytic polynomial \(p\) of degree \(m-1\), there exists an analytic polynomial \(q\) of degree \(m-1\) such that \(T_\varphi\), with \(\varphi=\overline{z^mh}+\overline{q}+p+z^mf\), is hyponormal. In particular, if rank\((T_\psi^*T_\psi-T_\psi T_\psi^*)<N-m\), then \(q\) is unique.