Schmidt subspaces of block Hankel operators

Abstract

In scalar-valued Hardy space, the class of Schmidt subspaces for a bounded Hankel operator are closely related to nearly $S^*$-invariant subspaces, as described by G\'{e}rard and Pushnitski. In this article, we prove that these subspaces in the context of vector-valued Hardy spaces are nearly $S^*$-invariant with finite defect in general. As a consequence, we obtain a short proof of the characterization results concerning the Schmidt subspaces in scalar-valued Hardy space in an alternative way. Thus, our work complements the work of G\'{e}rard and Pushnitski regarding the structure of Schmidt subspaces.