文摘
The purpose of this paper is to describe asymptotic spectral properties of sequences of variable-coefficient Toeplitz matrices. These sequences, AN(a), with a being in a Wiener type algebra and defined on an annular cylinder ([0,1]2×T), widely generalize the sequences of finite sections of a Toeplitz operator. We prove that if a(x,x,t) does not vanish for every (x,t)∈[0,1]×T then the singular values of AN(a) have the k-splitting property, which means that, there exists an integer k such that, for N large enough, the first k -singular values of AN(a) converge to zero as N→∞, while the others are bounded away from zero, with k=dimkerT(a(0,0,t))+dimkerT(a(1,1,t−1)), the sum of the kernel dimensions of two Toeplitz operators. In the end of the paper we discuss Fredholm properties of the mentioned sequences and describe them completely.