On a weighted Toeplitz operator and its commutant

We study the structure of a class of weighted Toeplitz operators and obtain a description of the commutant of each operator in this class. We make some progress towards proving that the only operator in the commutant which is not a scalar multiple of the identity operator and which commutes with a nonzero compact operator is zero. The proof of the main statement relies on a conjecture which is left as an open problem

All solutions to the relaxed commutant lifting problem

A new description is given of all solutions to the relaxed commutant lifting problem. The method of proof is also different from earlier ones, and uses only an operator-valued version of a classical lemma on harmonic majorants.Comment: 15 page

A hyperbolic universal operator commuting with a compact operator

A Hilbert space operator is called universal (in the sense of Rota) if every operator on the Hilbert space is similar to a multiple of the restriction of the universal operator to one of its invariant subspaces. We exhibit an analytic Toeplitz operator whose adjoint is universal in the sense of Rota and commutes with a non-trivial, quasinilpotent, injective, compact operator with dense range, but unlike other examples, it acts on the Bergman space instead of the Hardy space and this operator is associated with a `hyperbolic' composition operator