This book is devoted to the spectral theory of commutative C*-algebras of Toeplitz operators on the Bergman space and its applications. For each such commutative algebra there is a unitary operator which reduces Toeplitz operators from this algebra to certain multiplication operators, thus providing their spectral type representations. This yields a powerful research tool giving direct access to the majority of the important properties of the Toeplitz operators studied herein, such as boundedness, compactness, spectral properties, invariant subspaces.

The presence and exploitation of these spectral type representations forms the core for many results presented in the book. Among other results it contains a criterion of when the algebras are commutative on each commonly considered weighted Bergman space together with their explicit descriptions; a systematic study of Toeplitz operators with unbounded symbols; a clarification of the difference between compactness of commutators and semi-commutators of Toeplitz operators; the theory of Toeplitz and related operators with symbols having more than two limit values at boundary points; and a kind of semi-classical analysis of spectral properties of Toeplitz operators.

The book is addressed to a wide audience of mathematicians, from graduate students to researchers, whose primary interests lie in complex analysis and operator theory.

First and unique book in which commutative C*-algebras of Toeplitz operators are considered Starting from an introduction to the area the book leads readers to new, up-to-date results on the currently very active area of modern operator theory Presents new tools in the theory of Toeplitz operators based on the unique features of Toeplitz operators which generate commutative algebras Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Nikolai Vasilevski was a professor at the Department of Mathematics of CINVESTAV del I.P.N., Mexico City, Mexico. He moved there in 1992 from Odessa, Ukraine, where he worked at the Department of Mathematics of Odessa State University. He is the author of the monograph "Commutative Algebras of Toeplitz Operators on the Bergman Space" appeared at Birkhäuser in 2008.

Zusammenfassung

This unique book is devoted to the detailed study of the recently discovered commutative C*-algebras of Toeplitz operators on the Bergman space over the unit disk. Surprisingly, the key point to understanding their structure and classifying them lies in the hyperbolic geometry of the unit disk. The book develops a number of important problems whose successful solution was made possible and is based on the specific features of the Toeplitz operators from these commutative algebras.

Inhalt
Preliminaries.- Prologue.- Bergman and Poly-Bergman Spaces.- Bergman Type Spaces on the Unit Disk.- Toeplitz Operators with Commutative Symbol Algebras.- Toeplitz Operators on the Unit Disk with Radial Symbols.- Toeplitz Operators on the Upper Half-Plane with Homogeneous Symbols.- Anatomy of the Algebra Generated by Toeplitz Operators with Piece-wise continuous Symbols.- Commuting Toeplitz Operators and Hyperbolic Geometry.- Weighted Bergman Spaces.- Commutative Algebras of Toeplitz Operators.- Dynamics of Properties of Toeplitz Operators with Radial Symbols.- Dynamics of Properties of Toeplitz Operators on the Upper Half-Plane: Parabolic Case.- Dynamics of Properties of Toeplitz Operators on the Upper Half-Plane: Hyperbolic Case.