Journal of Operator Theory

Volume 49, Issue 2, Spring 2003 pp. 347-362.

When is the product of Hankel operators a Hankel operator?

Authors: Caixing Gu
Author institution: Department of Mathematics, California Polytechnis State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA

Summary: In this paper we characterize when the product of two block Hankel operators on the vector-valued Hardy space is a Hankel operator. We also describe when a block Toeplitz and a block Hankel operator commute. These characterizations extend results in two recent papers by T. Yoshino and R.A. Martínez-Avendaño respectively.

Keywords: Block Hankel operator, Toeplitz operator, Hardy space

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