Wiener-Hopf plus Hankel operators: Invertibility Problems

Abstract

The invertibility of Wiener-Hopf plus Hankel operators $W(a)+H(b)$ acting on the spaces $L^p({\mathbb{R}}^{+})$, $1<p<\infty$ is studied. If $a$ and $b$ belong to a subalgebra of $L^{\infty }(\mathbb{R})$ and satisfy the condition \begin{equation*} a(t) a(-t)=b(t) b(-t),\quad t\in\mathbb{R}, \end{equation*} we establish necessary and also sufficient conditions for the operators $W(a)+H(b)$ to be one-sided invertible, invertible or generalized invertible. Besides, efficient representations for the corresponding inverses are given.

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