Some results on the invertibility of Toeplitz plus Hankel operators

Abstract

The paper deals with the invertibility of Toeplitz plus Hankel operators T(a)+H(b) acting on classical Hardy spaces on the unit circle T. It is supposed that the generating functions a and b satisfy the condition a(t)a(1/t) = b(t)b(1/t), t ∈ T. Special attention is paid to the case of piecewise continuous generating functions. In some cases the dimensions of null spaces of the operator T(a) + H(b) and its adjoint are described. Fredholm properties of Toeplitz plus Hankel operatorsT(a)+H(b) with piecewise continuous generating functions a and b have been studied for many years. These operators are considered in various Banach and Hilbert spaces, and the results ob- tained show that the structure of the algebras generated by such operators is much more complicated than the structure of the algebras generated by one-dimensional singular integral operators with piecewise continuous coefficients defined on closed smooth curves. Moreover, calculating the index of Toeplitz plus Hankel operators, one encounters even more difficult problems, and the difficulti es grow if one attempts to study invertibility or one-sided invertibility of such operators. It is worth noting that, in general, Fredholm operators T(a) +H(b) are not one-sided invertible. Nev- ertheless, a few works where one-sided invertibility was discussed, have appeared in literature recently. They are mainly concerned with two special cases of Toeplitz plus Hankel operators—viz. with the operators having the form M(a) := T(a) +H(a) or the form f