On a Weighted Singular Integral Operator with Shifts and Slowly Oscillating Data

TL;DR

This paper investigates a weighted singular integral operator with shifts and slowly oscillating data, establishing conditions for its Fredholm property and zero index, and describing its regularizers.

Contribution

It proves the Fredholmness and zero index of a new class of weighted singular integral operators with shifts and oscillating coefficients, extending existing operator theory.

Findings

Operator is Fredholm under specified conditions.

The operator's index is zero.

Regularizers of the operator are explicitly described.

Abstract

Let $\alpha,\beta$ be orientation-preserving diffeomorphism (shifts) of $\mathbb{R}_+=(0,\infty)$ onto itself with the only fixed points $0$ and $\infty$ and $U_\alpha,U_\beta$ be the isometric shift operators on $L^p(\mathbb{R}_+)$ given by $U_\alpha f=(\alpha')^{1/p}(f\circ\alpha)$, $U_\beta f=(\beta')^{1/p}(f\circ\beta)$, and $P_2^\pm=(I\pm S_2)/2$ where \[ (S_2 f)(t):=\frac{1}{\pi i}\int\limits_0^\infty \left(\frac{t}{\tau}\right)^{1/2-1/p}\frac{f(\tau)}{\tau-t}\,d\tau, \quad t\in\mathbb{R}_+, \] is the weighted Cauchy singular integral operator. We prove that if $\alpha',\beta'$ and $c,d$ are continuous on $\mathbb{R}_+$ and slowly oscillating at $0$ and $\infty$, and \[ \limsup_{t\to s}|c(t)|<1, \quad \limsup_{t\to s}|d(t)|<1, \quad s\in\{0,\infty\}, \] then the operator $(I-cU_\alpha)P_2^++(I-dU_\beta)P_2^-$ is Fredholm on $L^p(\mathbb{R}_+)$ and its index is equal to zero. Moreover, its regularizers are described.