Analysis Seminar

Friday, October 14, 2016 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Lyudmila Turowska, Chalmers University of technology & Gothenburg University

"Compact operator synthesis and essential spectral synthesis in harmonic
analysis"

W. Arveson in his fundamental paper (Ann. Math 1974) discovered an
interplay between invariant subspaces and operator algebras theory and
spectral synthesis in harmonic analysis. The notion of operator synthesis
was proposed. It provided a powerful tool to study different questions in
harmonic analysis, operator theory, theory of multipliers and so on. In
this talk we will discuss sets that are operator synthetic "modulo
compact operators'' or "modulo Schatten ideals''. Analogs of such sets
in harmonic analysis are subsets $E\subset{\mathbb T}$ (${\mathbb T}$ is the circle group) such that any pseudofunction supported in $E$ (any
psedomeasure whose Fourier transform is in $l^p$ and supported in $E$)
annihilates functions in $A({\mathbb T})$ vanishing on $E$. We shall
discuss different examples of such sets, an analog of Malliavin's theorem
and applications to operator equations.