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Subnormal operators with compact selfcommutator

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Summary, in English

If $S$ is a hyponormal operator, then Putnam's inequality gives an estimate on the norm of the self-commutator $[S^*,S]$, while the Berger-Shaw theorem gives (under appropriate cyclicity hypotheses) a corresponding estimate on the trace of $[S^*,S]$. Of course these results hold when $S$ is subnormal.



In the subnormal setting, the author obtains useful estimates on the norm and essential norm of commutators of the form\break $[T_u,S]$, where $T_u$ is a Toeplitz operator with continuous symbol $u$. A consequence is the following compactness condition. If the essential spectrum of $S$ is the boundary of an open set, then $[S^*,S]$ is compact.



The author also proves some trace estimates for commutators. His basic method is a careful analysis of positive operator-valued measures.



Abstract For an arbitrary subnormal operator we estimate the essential norm and trace of commutators of the form [T u, S], whereT u is a Toeplitz operator with continuous symbol. In particular, we obtain criteria for the compactness of [S *,S]. The trace estimates apply to multiplication operators on Hardy spaces over general domains.

Publishing year

1996

Language

English

Pages

353-367

Publication/Series

Manuscripta Mathematica

Volume

91

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Mathematics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1432-1785