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Universal Toeplitz operators on the Hardy space over the polydisk

Functional Analysis 2020-09-16 v1

Abstract

The Invariant Subspace Problem (ISP) for Hilbert spaces asks if every bounded linear operator has a non-trivial closed invariant subspace. Due to the existence of universal operators (in the sense of Rota), the ISP may be solved by describing the invariant subspaces of these operators alone. We characterize all anaytic Toeplitz operators TϕT_\phi on the Hardy space H2(Dn)H^2(\mathbb{D}^n) over the polydisk Dn\mathbb{D}^n for n>1n>1 whose adjoints satisfy the Caradus criterion for universality, that is, when TϕT_\phi^* is surjective and has infinite dimensional kernel. In particular if ϕ\phi in a non-constant inner function on Dn\mathbb{D}^n, or a polynomial in the ring C[z1,,zn]\mathbb{C}[z_1,\ldots,z_n] that has zeros in Dn\mathbb{D}^n but is zero-free on Tn\mathbb{T}^n, then TϕT_\phi^* is universal for H2(Dn)H^2(\mathbb{D}^n). The analogs of these results for n=1n=1 are not true.

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@article{arxiv.2009.06751,
  title  = {Universal Toeplitz operators on the Hardy space over the polydisk},
  author = {Marcos Ferreira and S. Waleed Noor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.06751},
  year   = {2020}
}

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5 pages

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