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Nehari's theorem for convex domain Hankel and Toeplitz operators in several variables

Functional Analysis 2017-10-10 v3 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We prove Nehari's theorem for integral Hankel and Toeplitz operators on simple convex polytopes in several variables. A special case of the theorem, generalizing the boundedness criterion of the Hankel and Toeplitz operators on the Paley-Wiener space, reads as follows. Let Ξ=(0,1)d\Xi = (0,1)^d be a dd-dimensional cube, and for a distribution ff on 2Ξ2\Xi, consider the Hankel operator Γf(g)(x)=Ξf(x+y)g(y)dy,xΞ.\Gamma_f (g)(x)=\int_{\Xi} f(x+y) g(y) \, dy, \quad x \in\Xi. Then Γf\Gamma_f extends to a bounded operator on L2(Ξ)L^2(\Xi) if and only if there is a bounded function bb on Rd\mathbb{R}^d whose Fourier transform coincides with ff on 2Ξ2\Xi. This special case has an immediate application in matrix extension theory: every finite multi-level block Toeplitz matrix can be boundedly extended to an infinite multi-level block Toeplitz matrix. In particular, block Toeplitz operators with blocks which are themselves Toeplitz, can be extended to bounded infinite block Toeplitz operators with Toeplitz blocks.

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@article{arxiv.1709.01843,
  title  = {Nehari's theorem for convex domain Hankel and Toeplitz operators in several variables},
  author = {Marcus Carlsson and Karl-Mikael Perfekt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.01843},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

20 pages. Minor corrections in Section 7. Brief historical overview added