A. Bottcher et Yi. Karlovich, Toeplitz operators with PC symbols on general Carleson Jordan curves with arbitrary Muckenhoupt weights, T AM MATH S, 351(8), 1999, pp. 3143-3196
We describe the spectra and essential spectra of Toeplitz operators with pi
ecewise continuous symbols on the Hardy space H-p(Gamma,omega) in case 1 <
p < infinity, Gamma is a Carleson Jordan curve and omega is a Muckenhoupt w
eight in A(p)(Gamma). Classical results tell us that the essential spectrum
of the operator is obtained from the essential range of the symbol by fill
ing in line segments or circular arcs between the endpoints of the jumps if
both the curve and the weight are sufficiently nice. Only recently it was
discovered by Spitkovsky that these line segments or circular arcs metamorp
hose into horns if the curve is nice and omega is an arbitrary Muckenhoupt
weight, while the authors observed that certain special so-called logarithm
ic leaves emerge in the case of arbitrary Carleson curves with nice weights
. In this paper we show that for general Carleson curves and general Mucken
houpt weights the sets in question are logarithmic leaves with a halo, and
we present final results concerning the shape of the halo.