Spectral theory for algebraic combinations of Toeplitz and composition operators

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2009.05.025MaRDI QIDQ732042zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jennifer L. Moorhouse, Thomas L. III. Kriete, Barbara D. MacCluer

Publication date 9 October 2009

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2009.05.025

\(C^*\)-algebra composition operator essential spectrum Toeplitz operator

Hardy spaces (30H10) Hilbert spaces of continuous, differentiable or analytic functions (46E20) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Linear composition operators (47B33) Toeplitz operators, Hankel operators, Wiener-Hopf operators (47B35) Linear operators in (C^*)- or von Neumann algebras (47C15)

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Let \(\mathbb{D}\) denote the open unit disk in the complex plane and \(H^2\) the Hardy space of all holomorphic functions on \(\mathbb{D}\) with square summable power series coefficients. An analytic self-map \(\varphi\) of \(\mathbb{D}\) induces through composition a linear composition operator \[ C_{\varphi}: H^2 \to H^2, \; f \mapsto f \circ \varphi. \] It is well known that such an operator is bounded. \(H^2\) can be considered as the subspace of \(L^2\) spanned by \(\{e^{in\theta}:n\geq 0\}\) if any \(H^2\)-function is identified with its (almost everywhere existing) non-tangential limit function on the circle. Thus, any bounded, measurable, complex-valued function \(w\) on \(\partial \mathbb{D}\) gives a Toeplitz operator \[ T_w: H^2 \to H^2, \; f \mapsto P(wf), \] where \(P\) is the orthogonal projection of \(L^2\) onto \(H^2\). Motivated by the article [Trans.\ Am.\ Math.\ Soc.\ 359, No.\,6, 2915--2944 (2007; Zbl 1115.47023)] by \textit{T.\,Kriete} and \textit{J.\,Moorhouse}, the authors determine the essential spectra of algebraic combinations of Toeplitz operators with continuous symbol and composition operators induced by a class of linear-fractional non-automorphisms of the unit disk. The approach to do this is to realize the \(C^*\)-algebra that they generate as an extension of the compact operators by a concrete \(C^*\)-algebra whose invertible elements are easily characterized.

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