Subnormal block Toeplitz operators
Functional Analysis
2026-05-11 v2
Abstract
In this paper we consider the subnormality of block Toeplitz operators , where is an matrix-valued function on the unit circle of the form This is related to a matrix-valued version of Halmos's Problem 5 and Nakazi-Takahashi Theorem. We ask whether is either normal or analytic if is subnormal, where is of the above form. We give answers to this problem for different cases of the symbol. Moreover, we provide a sufficient condition for the answer to be affirmative when is not of bounded type.
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@article{arxiv.2605.02186,
title = {Subnormal block Toeplitz operators},
author = {Mankunikuzhiyil Abhinand and Raul E. Curto and In Sung Hwang and Woo Young Lee and Thankarajan Prasad},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.02186},
year = {2026}
}