Oleksiy Karlovych

A classical theorem of Coifman, Rochberg, and Weiss on commutators of singular integrals is extended to the case of generalized Lp spaces with variable exponent.

In this paper, the author proves that the set of all integrable functions whose sequences of negative (resp. nonnegative) Fourier coefficients belong to \(\ell^1\cap\ell^\Phi_{\varphi,w}\) (resp. to \(\ell^1\cap\ell^\Psi_{\psi,\varrho}\)), where \(\ell^\Phi_{\varphi,w}\) and \(\ell^\Psi_{\psi,\varrho}\) are two-weighted Orlicz sequence spaces, forms an algebra under pointwise multiplication whenever the weight sequences
\[
\varphi=\{\varphi_n\},\quad
\psi=\{\psi_n\},\quad
w=\{w_n\},\quad
\varrho=\{\varrho_n\}
\]
increase and satisfy the \(\Delta_2\)-condition.

Harold Widom proved in 1966 that the spectrum of a Toeplitz operator \(T(a)\) acting on the Hardy space \(H^p(\mathbb{T})\) over the unit circle \(\mathbb{T}\) is a connected subset of the complex plane for every bounded measurable symbol \(a\) and \(1 < p < \infty\). In 1972, Ronald Douglas established the connectedness of the essential spectrum of \(T(a)\) on \(H^2(\mathbb{T})\). We show that, as was suspected, these results remain valid in the setting of Hardy spaces \(H^p(\Gamma,w)\), \( 1 < p < \infty \), with general Muckenhoupt weights \(w\) over arbitrary Carleson curves \(\Gamma\).

The paper is devoted to the compactness of the commutators \(aS_\Gamma - S_\Gamma aI\) and \(W_\alpha S_\Gamma - S_\Gamma W_\alpha\), where \(S_\Gamma\) is the Cauchy singular integral operator, \(a\) is a bounded measurable function, \(W_\alpha\) is the shift operator given by \(W_\alpha f = f\circ\alpha\), and \(\alpha\) is a bi-Lipschitz homeomorphism (shift). The cases of the unit circle and the unit interval are considered. We prove that these commutators are compact on rearrangement-invariant spaces with nontrivial Boyd indices if and only if the function a or, respectively, the derivative of the shift a has vanishing mean oscillation.

We construct a presymbol for the Banach algebra \(\operatorname{alg}(\Omega, S)\) generated by the Cauchy singular integral operator \(S\) and the operators of multiplication by functions in a Banach subalgebra \(\Omega\) of \(L^\infty\). This presymbol is a homomorphism \(\operatorname{alg}(\Omega,S)\to\Omega\oplus\Omega\) whose kernel coincides with the commutator ideal of \(\operatorname{alg}(\Omega,S)\). In terms of the presymbol, necessary conditions for Fredholmness of an operator in \(\operatorname{alg}(\Omega,S)\) are proved. All operators are considered on reflexive rearrangement-invariant spaces with nontrivial Boyd indices over the unit circle.

Suppose \(\alpha\) is an orientation preserving diffeomorphism (shift) of \(\mathbb{R}_+=(0,\infty)\) onto itself with the only fixed points \(0\) and \(\infty\). We establish sufficient conditions for the Fredholmness of the singular integral operator with shift \[ (aI-bW_\alpha)P_++(cI-dW_\alpha)P_- \] acting on \(L^p(\mathbb{R}_+)\) with \( 1 < p < \infty \), where \(P_\pm=(I\pm S)/2\), \(S\) is the Cauchy singular integral operator, and \(W_\alpha f=f\circ\alpha\) is the shift operator, under the assumptions that the coefficients \(a,b,c,d\) and the derivative \(\alpha'\) of the shift are bounded and continuous on \(\mathbb{R}_+\) and may admit discontinuities of slowly oscillating type at \(0\) and \(\infty\).

Let \(\gamma\) be a simple open smooth curve and \(\alpha\) be an orientation-preserving diffeomorphism of \(\gamma\) onto itself which has only two fixed points. Criteria for one-sided invertibility of the functional operator
\[
A=aI-bW,
\]
where \(a\) and \(b\) are continuous functions, \(I\) is the identity operator, \(W\) is the shift operator: \((Wf)(t)=f[\alpha(t)]\), in a reflexive rearrangement-invariant space of fundamental type \(X(\gamma)\) with nontrivial Boyd indices, are obtained.

We study the boundedness of Fourier convolution operators \(W^0(b)\) and the compactness of commutators of \(W^0(b)\) with multiplication operators \(aI\) on some Banach function spaces \(X(\mathbb{R})\) for certain classes of piecewise quasicontinuous functions \(a\in PQC\) and piecewise slowly oscillating Fourier multipliers \(b\in PSO_{X,1}^\diamond\). We suppose that \(X(\mathbb{R})\) is a separable rearrangement-invariant space with nontrivial Boyd indices or a reflexive variable Lebesgue space, in which the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator is bounded. Our results complement those of Isaac De La Cruz-Rodríguez, Yuri Karlovich, and Iván Loreto Hernández obtained for Lebesgue spaces with Muckenhoupt weights.

We prove asymptotic formulas for Toeplitz determinants generated by functions with sequences of Fourier coefficients belonging to weighted Orlicz sequence classes. We concentrate our attention on the case of nonvanishing generating functions with nonzero Cauchy index.

Suppose \(\alpha\) is an orientation-preserving diffeomorphism (shift) of \(\mathbb{R}_+=(0,\infty)\) onto itself with the only fixed points \(0\) and \(\infty\). In [KKL11] we found sufficient conditions for the Fredholmness of the singular integral operator with shift \[(aI-bW_\alpha)P_++(cI-dW_\alpha)P_-\] acting on \(L^p(\mathbb{R}_+)\) with \( 1 < p < \infty\), where \(P_\pm=(I\pm S)/2\), \(S\) is the Cauchy singular integral operator, and \(W_\alpha f=f\circ\alpha\) is the shift operator, under the assumptions that the coefficients \(a,b,c,d\) and the derivative \(\alpha'\) of the shift are bounded and continuous on \(\mathbb{R}_+\) and may admit discontinuities of slowly oscillating type at \(0\) and \(\infty\). Now we prove that those conditions are also necessary.

We consider the Banach algebra \(\mathfrak{A}\) of singular integral operators with matrix piecewise continuous coefficients in the reflexive Orlicz space \(L_M^n(\Gamma)\). We assume that \(\Gamma\) belongs to a certain wide subclass of the class of Carleson curves; this subclass includes curves with cusps, as well as curves of the logarithmic spiral type. We obtain an index formula for an arbitrary operator from the algebra \(\mathfrak{A}\) in terms of the symbol of this operator.

Let \(\alpha,\beta\) be orientation-preserving diffeomorphism (shifts) of \(\mathbb{R}_+=(0,\infty)\) onto itself with the only fixed points \(0\) and \(\infty\) and \(U_\alpha,U_\beta\) be the isometric shift operators on \(L^p(\mathbb{R}_+)\) given by \(U_\alpha f=(\alpha')^{1/p}(f\circ\alpha)\), \(U_\beta f=(\beta')^{1/p}(f\circ\beta)\), and \(P_2^\pm=(I\pm S_2)/2\) where \[ (S_2 f)(t):=\frac{1}{\pi i}\int\limits_0^\infty \left(\frac{t}{\tau}\right)^{1/2-1/p}\frac{f(\tau)}{\tau-t}\,d\tau, \quad t\in\mathbb{R}_+, \]
is the weighted Cauchy singular integral operator. We prove that if \(\alpha',\beta'\) and \(c,d\) are continuous on \(\mathbb{R}_+\) and slowly oscillating at \(0\) and \(\ infty\), and \[ \limsup_{t\to s}|c(t)|<1,\quad \limsup_{t\to s}|d(t)|<1, \quad s\in\{0,\infty\}, \] then the operator \((I-cU_\alpha)P_2^++(I-dU_\beta)P_2^-\) is Fredholm on \(L^p(\mathbb{R}_+)\) and its index is equal to zero. Moreover, its regularizers are described.

We prove a Fredholm criterion for operators in the Banach algebra of singular integral operators with matrix piecewise continuous coefficients acting on a variable Lebesgue space with a radial oscillating weight over a logarithmic Carleson curve. The local spectra of these operators are massive and have a shape of spiralic horns depending on the value of the variable exponent, the spirality indices of the curve, and the Matuszewska-Orlicz indices of the weight at each point. These results extend (partially) the results of A. Böttcher, Yu. Karlovich, and V. Rabinovich for standard Lebesgue spaces to the case of variable Lebesgue spaces.