Award-winning monograph of the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize 1997.
This book is a self-contained exposition of the spectral theory of
Toeplitz operators with piecewise continuous symbols and singular
integral operators with piecewise continuous coefficients. It includes
an introduction to Carleson curves, Muckenhoupt weights, weighted norm
inequalities, local principles, Wiener-Hopf factorization, and Banach
algebras generated by idempotents. Some basic phenomena in the field and
the techniques for treating them came to be understood only in recent
years and are comprehensively presented here for the first time.
The material has been polished in an effort to make advanced topics
accessible to a broad readership. The book is addressed to a wide
audience of students and mathematicians interested in real and complex
analysis, functional analysis and operator theory.