On compact Hankel operators over compact Abelian groups

Abstract

We consider compact and connected Abelian group $G$ with a linearly ordered dual. Based on the description of the structure of compact Hankel operators over $G$, generalizations of the classical Kronecker, Hartman, Peller and Adamyan-Arov-Krein theorems are obtained. A generalization of Burling's invariant subspace theorem is also established. Applications are given to Hankel operators over discrete groups