Compact operators and Toeplitz algebras on multiply-connected domains

摘要

If Ω is a smoothly bounded multiply-connected domain in the complex plane and S belongs to the Toeplitz algebra τ of the Bergman space of Ω, we show that S is compact if and only if its Berezin transform vanishes at the boundary of Ω. We also show that every element S in T, the C*-subalgebra of τ generated by Toeplitz operators with symbols in H∞(Ω), has a canonical decomposition S=TS~+R for some R in the commutator ideal CT; and S is in CT iff the Berezin transform S~ vanishes identically on the set M1 of trivial Gleason parts.