Positivity of Toeplitz operators on harmonic Bergman space

Citation
Shu, Yong Lu et Zhao, Xian Feng, Positivity of Toeplitz operators on harmonic Bergman space, Acta mathematica Sinica. English series (Print) , 32(2), 2016, pp. 175-186
ISSN journal
14398516
Volume
32
Issue
2
Year of publication
2016
Pages
175 - 186
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
In this paper, we study positive Toeplitz operators on the harmonic Bergman space via their Berezin transforms. We consider the Toeplitz operators with continuous harmonic symbols on the closed disk and show that the Toeplitz operator is positive if and only if its Berezin transform is nonnegative on the disk. On the other hand, we construct a function such that the Toeplitz operator with this function as the symbol is not positive but its Berezin transform is positive on the disk. We also consider the harmonic Bergman space on the upper half plane and prove that in this case the positive Toeplitz operators with continuous integrable harmonic symbols must be the zero operator.