Toeplitz operators on Bergman spaces with locally integrable symbols (Q986623)

The authors study boundedness and compactness conditions for Toeplitz operators \(T_a\) with locally integrable symbols \(a\) on Bergman spaces \(A^p\), \(1<p<\infty\), over the unit disk on the complex plane. The main result gives sufficient conditions for the boundedness and for the compactness of \(T_a\) in terms of certain averages of the symbol \(a\) over hyperbolic rectangles. Moreover, these conditions coincide with the known necessary conditions in the case of nonnegative symbols and \(p=2\). The authors describe as well the Fredholm properties of Toeplitz operators with \(VMO^1_{\partial}\) symbols.