Commutative Toeplitz Algebras and Their Gelfand Theory: Old and New Results

Abstract

We present a survey and new results on the construction and Gelfand theory of commutative Toeplitz algebras over the standard weighted Bergman and Hardy spaces over the unit ball in $$\mathbb {C}^n$$ C n . As an application we discuss semi-simplicity and the spectral invariance of these algebras. The different function Hilbert spaces are dealt with in parallel in successive chapters so that a direct comparison of the results is possible. As a new aspect of the theory we define commutative Toeplitz algebras over spaces of functions in infinitely many variables and present some structural results. The paper concludes with a short list of open problems in this area of research.

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