Toeplitz Operators on Abstract Hardy Spaces Built upon Banach Function Spaces

Let X be a Banach function space over the unit circle T and let H[X] be the abstract Hardy space built upon X. If the Riesz projection P is bounded on X and a∈L∞, then the Toeplitz operator Taf=P(af) is bounded on H[X]. We extend well-known results by Brown and Halmos for X=L2 and show that, under certain assumptions on the space X, the Toeplitz operator Ta is bounded (resp., compact) if and only if a∈L∞ (resp., a=0). Moreover, aL∞≤TaB(H[X])≤PB(X)aL∞. These results are specified to the cases of abstract Hardy spaces built upon Lebesgue spaces with Muckenhoupt weights and Nakano spaces with radial oscillating weights.

Commuting Dilations and Uniform Algebras

Let X be a compact Hausdorff space, let C(X) be the algebra of complex-valued continuous functions on X, and let A be a uniform algebra on X. Fix a nonzero complex homomorphism τ on A and a representing measure m for τ on X. The abstract Hardy space Hp = Hp(m), 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞, determined by A is defined to the closure of Lp = Lp(m) when p is finite and to be the weak*-closure of A in L∞ = L∞(m) p = ∞.