A Sufficient condition for compactness of Hankel operators

Abstract

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded convex domain in $\mathbb{C}^{n}$. We show that if $\varphi \in C^{1}(\overline{\Omega})$ is holomorphic along analytic varieties in $b\Omega$, then $H^{q}_{\varphi}$, the Hankel operator with symbol $\varphi$, is compact. We have shown the converse earlier, so that we obtain a characterization of compactness of these operators in terms of the behavior of the symbol relative to analytic structure in the boundary. A corollary is that Toeplitz operators with these symbols are Fredholm (of index zero).